Today, Albert Camus is still alive but changed, thanks to the art of David Oelhoffen and Kamel Daoud. Reda Kateb (left) and Viggo Mortensen in Loin des hommes Albert Camus, once decried as the symbol ...

Albert Camus’ writing often comforts the restless mind by reminding us of inner strength, clarity, and quiet acceptance. His words illuminate the tension between chaos and calm, offering simple truths ...

Organise! magazine looks at the life and work of the great thinker and writer, Albert Camus, and his close relationship with the French and Spanish anarchist movements. Born in French Algeria into a ...

Algerian Chronicles shows that Camus still has something to say to us—not about terrorism but economic justice. Toward the end of his recent memoir, Jean Daniel, the last surviving friend of Albert ...

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 ...

In this week’s issue of the magazine, there’s a superb essay by Adam Gopnik, about Albert Camus and his intellectual legacy—in particular, about the moral gravity of Camus’s liberal decency. By pure ...

Matthew Sharpe works for Deakin University. He is the author of Camus, Philosophe: To Return to Our Beginnings (Brill, 2015/16) and an editor at the Journal for Camus Studies. Some weeks ago, I got an ...

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 ...

The situation was impossibly precarious and a solution seemed practically impossible. Two communities, one composed of indigenous Arabs and the other of mostly European immigrants, laid claim to the ...

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 ...