There is much that human beings rebel against, and there are various forms of rebellion, many of which psychiatry ...

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 ...

After reading David Szalay’s Booker Prize winning ‘Flesh’ and watching François Ozon’s adaptation of Camus’s ‘The Stranger’, ...

Explore Albert Camus' perspective on the complexities of lying and emotional honesty. Discover why people bend the truth and ...

Camus used his journals to wrestle with the ideas he explored in books such as “The Stranger” and “The Myth of Sisyphus.” ...

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 ...

French philosopher and Nobel Prize-winning author Albert Camus once wrote, “When the soul suffers too much, it develops a ...

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.

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. It’s the same sun beating down on us all, Albert Camus memorably conveyed in his oft-debated 1942 novel “The ...