The French existentialist Albert Camus wrote a series of letters to a German friend during World War II. The friend had become a Nazi. Here are a couple of excerpts that remind me of our time and ...

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.

Albert Camus was a French-Algerian philosopher, author, and journalist, celebrated as a major 20th-century thinker for his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Curzon releases the trailer for François Ozon’s The Stranger, starring Benjamin Voisin. The Venice-premiered Camus adaptation ...

In my self-isolating household in upstate New York, the pandemic has thus far produced boredom eating, boredom watching, hiking, candlelight dinners and, later in the evening, some reading out loud.

Albert Camus, the Nobel laureate, offers a timeless perspective on real happiness, emphasizing acceptance over constant searching. His philosophy suggests inner strength and steadiness are key, even ...