Some writers are lucky enough to be remembered 50 years after they die, and a few are even beloved. What is vanishingly rare, however, is for a long-dead writer to remain controversial. Albert Camus ...

Les Ateliers Camus represents the pinnacle of luxury and craftsmanship within the Camus Cognac house. Launched in 2018 by Cyril Camus and his wife, Alexa Camus, this exclusive division embodies the ...

World’s highest-IQ man says he has concluded ‘God is real’ In this vein, on December 10, 1957, in Stockholm, during the Nobel ...

Some writers speak to us through the window of their time—we need to get back to where they once belonged to truly focus on the shape of their ideas—and a few speak to us permanently, jumping, with ...

We were born at the beginning of the First World War. When we were adolescents, we had the Depression. When we were twenty, Hitler came. Then we had the Ethiopian war; the Spanish war; Munich. This is ...

Given the Panthéon’s function as the final repose for France’s greatest heroes, it’s perhaps not surprising that efforts are now afoot to relocate the ashes of writer and philosopher Albert Camus to a ...

I first met Albert Camus in the fall of 1980, when I was a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. I say met because it felt that personal to me. His 1942 provocation “The Myth of Sisyphus” was ...

On December 1st, UPTOWN had the pleasure of attending Camus Cognac’s unveiling at The Cecil Steakhouse of the limited-edition VSOP bottle that spotlights Harlem’s icon status as a neighborhood and ...

Read The New Yorker’s complete news coverage and analysis of the coronavirus pandemic. The novel’s hero and narrator, Bernard Rieux, a physician, takes quiet moral action amid his city’s devastation, ...

On the 50th anniversary of his death, Camus is the most widely read of all the postwar French writers and hip enough to inspire a comic-book series. Allen Barra on the writer’s surprising afterlife.