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

Some writers are lucky enough to be remembered 50 years after they die, and a few are even beloved. What is vanishingly rare, however, is for a long-dead writer to remain controversial. Albert Camus ...

I MET him first in Paris in the early days of June, 1945. He had published The Stranger, which I had read and arranged to publish in America, and was about to complete The Plague (of which my office ...

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 ...

The publication of Albert Camus’s 1944-1959 correspondence with his lover Maria Casarès is the literary sensation of the season. Camus, the Nobel laureate for literature in 1957 and author of one of ...

Read The New Yorker’s complete news coverage and analysis of the coronavirus pandemic. The novel’s hero and narrator, Bernard Rieux, a physician, takes quiet moral action amid his city’s devastation, ...

On 16 October 1957, Albert Camus was eating lunch at a restaurant in the heart of Paris’s Latin Quarter. Partway through the meal, a young man from his publisher’s office appeared. The young man ...

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 ...

Can you be the friend of someone whose politics are diametrically opposed to yours? The norms of social media would seem to forbid it. People today commonly self-identify as the enemy of some “other”.