According to an Italian author and his supporters, there is compelling evidence that the literary giant and defender of the ...

François Ozon’s adaptation of the 1942 novella L’Etranger passionately honours the original text while bringing a contemporary perspective to its themes of empire and race A heatstricken reverie of ...

A version of this story ran in the December 2013 issue. In the United States, though, Camus has always been adored. Inverting the Jerry Lewis syndrome, Americans have taken to Camus while Balzac and ...

Albert Camus would have celebrated his 100th birthday this week. Judging from how he documented his birthdays, it probably would not have been a particularly happy affair: his journals reveal an ...

Albert Camus, who would be 100 years old Thursday, is ageless. The French Algerian’s life and work reflect the long tragedy of the 20th century, marked by disquiet, genocide and violence, but his ...

We were born at the beginning of the First World War. When we were adolescents, we had the Depression. When we were twenty, Hitler came. Then we had the Ethiopian war; the Spanish war; Munich. This is ...

In this week’s issue, Adam Gopnik calls Albert Camus the “Don Draper of existentialism.” During Camus’s first and only trip to the United States, in 1946, New Yorkers treated him like a celebrity.

Some writers speak to us through the window of their time—we need to get back to where they once belonged to truly focus on the shape of their ideas—and a few speak to us permanently, jumping, with ...

American teenager Elizabeth Hawes fell in love with Albert Camus in the late 1950s. Camus's novels inspired her with a "feeling of connection, compassion, and love for all of mankind" and she ...