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

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.

A new genealogical study reveals that football icon Eric Cantona, Pope Leo XIV, and author Albert Camus share distant ancestry. All three descend from families rooted in Roquevaire, Southern ...

EXCLUSIVE: French powerhouse studio Gaumont has taken on international sales rights to prolific French filmmaker François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’ literary masterpiece The Stranger.