EXILE AND THE KINGDOM (213 pp.) —Albert Camus—Knopf ($3.50). Nobel Prizewinner Albert Camus is a writer without small talk. His themes—life, love, death, man, God, time—are large and universal. He ...

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 ...

Author and philosopher Albert Camus died in a car crash in 1960, aged just 46. But the existential, moral and political ...

NOTEBOOKS 1935-1942 by Albert Camus. 224 pages. Knopf. $5. Albert Camus was briefly a Communist; later he was considered to be a disciple of Jean Paul Sartre’s despairing existentialism. In fact, ...

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 ...

Albert Camus grappled with virtually every crisis of the 20th century intellectual. He was an anti-colonial activist in his native Algeria during the 1930s and a member of the Resistance in occupied ...

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 my self-isolating household in upstate New York, the pandemic has thus far produced boredom eating, boredom watching, hiking, candlelight dinners and, later in the evening, some reading out loud.

Book of the Day: Compact yet profound, the novel challenges readers to examine the gap between the moral image they present to the world and the choices they actually make. In doing so, The Fall ...

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. The notebooks of Albert Camus, the French philosopher and novelist, have been collected in a single volume for the first time.