French filmmaker François Ozon offers a charged and rewarding adaptation of the classic book about a man in Algeria seemingly ...

François Ozon’s lovely adaptation of the French masterpiece is both resolutely faithful and refreshingly new.

The intensity of “The Stranger” reminds us that Ozon has, in addition to his elaborations of and fantasias on queer themes, ...

A man of indifference becomes a killer in this adaptation of a 1942 Albert Camus novel.

French philosopher Albert Camus's profound quote, 'Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is,' encapsulates ...

Albert Camus, who would be 100 years old Thursday, is ageless. The French Algerian’s life and work reflect the long tragedy of the 20th century, marked by disquiet, genocide and violence, but his ...

This atmospheric - and mostly loyal - adaptation might be too pretty for its own good.

I MET him first in Paris in the early days of June, 1945. He had published The Stranger, which I had read and arranged to publish in America, and was about to complete The Plague (of which my office ...

It is a century since French Nobel prize-winning author Albert Camus was born – and more than 50 years since he died in an accident on an icy road – yet the polemics over his legacy and "mysterious" ...

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, ...

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 ...