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.

The notebooks of Albert Camus, the French philosopher and novelist, have been collected in a single volume for the first time.

Albert Camus never set out to become the conscience of a century, yet history placed him there. His life was marked by brilliance, loss, and a quiet rebellion against despair. He lived through wars ...

Even if you’ve read Albert Camus’s slim novel The Stranger (L’ Étranger) repeatedly, there are still a few things you may not know about the masterpiece, which has sold more than 6 million copies. 1.

Algerian Chronicles shows that Camus still has something to say to us—not about terrorism but economic justice. Toward the end of his recent memoir, Jean Daniel, the last surviving friend of Albert ...

In this week’s issue of the magazine, there’s a superb essay by Adam Gopnik, about Albert Camus and his intellectual legacy—in particular, about the moral gravity of Camus’s liberal decency. By pure ...

Toward the end of January, I began to notice a strange echo between my work and the news. A mysterious virus had appeared in the city of Wuhan, and though the virus resembled previous diseases, there ...

The intellectual had little faith in rationalism and existentialism but devoted his life to opposing nihilism “Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear,” wrote Albert Camus, who died 54 ...

What are the core ideas of Camus’ philosophy? ““For Camus, meaninglessness or absurdity is a consequence of two forces: humankind’s thirst for meaning and the world’s silence. No matter how insistent, ...

François Ozon's ‘The Stranger' Leads Nominations; Jodie Foster Up For Best Actress & Natalie Portman Animation Also In ...