A ranked guide to Albert Camus and his most powerful works, from early attempts to lasting masterpieces that continue to ...

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, ...

There are two kinds of people during a pandemic: Those who take the opportunity to read “The Plague” by Albert Camus, and those who don’t. I, like thousands if not millions of others, am in the first ...

During this fearful pandemic, I sought out wisdom from a favorite author from my graduate school days in English literature at Drew University. Albert Camus was a French Algerian philosopher, author, ...

Toward the end of January, I began to notice a strange echo between my work and the news. A mysterious virus had appeared in the city of Wuhan, and though the virus resembled previous diseases, there ...

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 ...

University of Houston historian Zaretsky offers an invigorating blend of history, criticism, and biography in a stirring reassessment of the Nobel Prize–winning existentialist writer Albert Camus.

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 ...

The premiere of "The Outsider" at this year's Venice Film Festival brings to the screen one of the world's most read novels, penned by French author Albert Camus, a star in his day and now. Winner of ...

In 1948, Stephen Spender wrote for the Book Review about Albert Camus’s “The Plague,” a novel about an epidemic spreading across the French Algerian city of Oran. “The Plague” is a parable and sermon, ...

The French writer, Albert Camus, was 'a moralist who insisted that while the world is absurd and allows for no hope, we are not condemned to despair.' Zaretsky, in A Life Worth Living, portrays Camus ...

They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but as a man intrigued by the concept of judgement, the French philosopher Albert Camus would allow us to make an exception. Happily the covers for ...