Both saw life as absurd. Camus chose struggle. Cossery chose leisure. One pushed the boulder up; the other watched it roll by ...

Since the incredible cruelty of Pahalgam, the spectre of unrelenting death has leapt out of the sub-conscious to pervade and ...

News about Albert Camus, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Kierkegaard and Camus each pointed to some fundamental conditions of our existence. Life is about creating meaning. When one lives passionately, one can die without rebellion.

A question Albert Camus asked faces the judiciary even today Albert Camus’ apathetic, remorseless protagonist in The Stranger raised philosophical questions on society’s view of the death penalty.

But by being the gentle creature who was Albert Camus, seeing friendship clearly enough to obscure the dangers of living in the twentieth century, he died as any less thoughtful person might.

Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913, in Mondovi, now Drean, a town near Algeria's northeast coast. Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis The Hotel El-Djazair, formerly known as the Hotel Saint ...