Renowned French-Algerian philosopher and 1957 Nobel laureate Albert Camus remains one of the 20th century's most influential literary figures, celebrated for his profound explorations of existence and ...

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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.

Albert Camus, a renowned Algerian-French author, delved into themes of human resilience and the strength found within ...

Some writers are lucky enough to be remembered 50 years after they die, and a few are even beloved. What is vanishingly rare, however, is for a long-dead writer to remain controversial. Albert Camus ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quote of the day: Albert Camus was a French philosopher, novelist, author, and political activist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.

“For Camus, true nobility lies in lucid acceptance of the world, its beauties and its limits, its joys and its demands, its inhabitants and our common lot.” — Robert Zaretsky, A Life Worth Living What ...

If the Ebola virus does spread in this country, it is only a matter of time before we hear that it is the will of an angry God bent on punishing someone somewhere for some kind of sin. There’s nothing ...