The French writer, Albert Camus, was 'a moralist who insisted that while the world is absurd and allows for no hope, we are not condemned to despair.' Zaretsky, in A Life Worth Living, portrays Camus ...

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

The film tells the story of the last ten years in the life of the great French existentialist philosopher and writer Albert Camus. His final years were filled with intriguing events, until a tragic ...

After reading David Szalay’s Booker Prize winning ‘Flesh’ and watching François Ozon’s adaptation of Camus’s ‘The Stranger’, I was reminded of the most cynical book in the Bible — with its message ...

Given the Panthéon’s function as the final repose for France’s greatest heroes, it’s perhaps not surprising that efforts are now afoot to relocate the ashes of writer and philosopher Albert Camus to a ...

A shocking terror attack unfolded at a Swiss train station as a man armed with a knife injured three individuals. Authorities ...

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. The notebooks of Albert Camus, the French philosopher and novelist, have been collected in a single volume for the first time.