“The Stranger,” Albert Camus’ classic novel, which is about to celebrate its 75th anniversary in print, almost wasn’t published. Alice Kaplan, the John M. Musser Professor of French, recounts this ...

Albert Camus was a French Algerian philosopher, author, and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44 in 1957, the second-youngest recipient in history. Camus was born in ...

MY LIBERTY is absolute,” said the nihilist to the Englishman. “There is nothing which prevents me from punching you in the nose if I wish to.” “Oh, yes, there is,” replied the Englishman, “Your ...

A highly acclaimed biography of the French novelist and philosopher. (May) ...

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.