Albert Camus, a Nobel laureate, believed life's value lies in full experience. He encouraged embracing joy and suffering with ...

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" ...

We were born at the beginning of the First World War. When we were adolescents, we had the Depression. When we were twenty, Hitler came. Then we had the Ethiopian war; the Spanish war; Munich. This is ...

In late August 1944, Albert Camus, then 31 years old, gazed out on a city convulsing with the ecstasy of long-desired liberation, and wrote, "Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night.

Quote of the Day by Albert Camus highlights the profound importance of honest self-awareness. True maturity, he suggests, ...

Happiness often emerges naturally when people engage in meaningful activities, build strong relationships, and appreciate the present moment.

The notebooks of Albert Camus, the French philosopher and novelist, have been collected in a single volume for the first time. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through ...

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 ...

"What they did not like," wrote Albert Camus of his fictionalised double in his unfinished last novel, The First Man, "was the Algerian in him." Fifty years after the death of the Nobel prize-winning ...

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 ...

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”.

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, ...