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 ...

I first met Albert Camus in the fall of 1980, when I was a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. I say met because it felt that personal to me. His 1942 provocation “The Myth of Sisyphus” was ...

Albert Camus’ death, sixty years ago, stunned France. The French literary icon was just 46 years old when he died in a car crash southeast of Paris on January 4, 1960. The author of “The Stranger” was ...

Jonathan Rée explains the ways in which Camus’s philosophy differed from that of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, with whom he’s often associated, and why his most famous novel, L’Étranger, ...

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 ...

Sixty years after the French Nobel laureate Albert Camus died in a car crash at the age of 46, a new book argues that he was assassinated by KGB spies in retaliation for his anti-Soviet rhetoric.

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Celebrations are taking place to mark 100 years since the birth of Albert Camus. Here's what you need to know about the French writer's life and work Albert Camus in 1957, just after it was announced ...

It is a century since French Nobel Prize-winning author Albert Camus was born — and more than 50 years since he died in an accident on an icy road — yet the polemics over his legacy and "mysterious" ...

It’s amazing how many pandemic books there are, and how thoroughly the idea of a global pandemic had crept into our popular culture well before the current situation. My daughter and I watched the Tom ...