The notebooks of Albert Camus, the French philosopher and novelist, have been collected in a single volume for the first time.
In March 1946, Albert Camus, then 32, departed Le Havre, France, on a ship bound for the United States. Arriving in New York two weeks later, he was appalled but sanguine about what he saw: “At first ...
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, 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.
On Jan. 4, 1960, the world lost one of the most profound voices of the 20th century. Albert Camus, the 46-year-old author of “The Stranger” and “The Plague” and a recent winner of the Nobel Prize in ...
In this political season of our own, it can be uncanny to encounter Camus’s seven-decade-old account of a dissembling leader, whose advisers cannot bear even to speak aloud the name of the disease ...