Handwritten ‘draft’ of Albert Camus’s L’Étranger sold in Paris for €650,000
Text appears to have been copied out and backdated by Camus in 1944, possibly as a way to raise funds during Nazi occupation
July 2020
Brief letters
Where's the air bridge to San Serriffe?
Brief letters: Protective bubbles | Pandemic literature | Sculptural distancing | Johnson’s gestures | Visiting San Serriffe
May 2020
Look, don't touch: what great literature can teach us about love with no contact
Building a better world through mutual aid
April 2020
The Guardian view on lockdown reading: not just a way of escaping
Editorial:It’s no surprise that people read a lot when stuck at home. But novels are more than a way to kill time
March 2020
We need to be physically distant, but we need to share our collective pain
Tim Costello
Albert Camus novel The Plague leads surge of pestilence fiction
Lockdown culture
Got 150 hours? Great audiobooks to listen to on lockdown
Publishers report sales boom in novels about fictional epidemics
January 2020
Wartime Albert Camus letter lays bare his Vichy-era anguish
Letter found in Gen Charles de Gaulle’s archives written when France was under Nazi control
December 2019
New book claims Albert Camus was murdered by the KGB
Study expands on archive finds revealed in 2011, and suggests that the French state may have abetted the 1960 car crash that killed him
October 2019
Top 10s
Top 10 books about Europe
From Homer to Camus by way of Brecht, French author Laurent Gaudé picks the books that tell us something important about the continent today
March 2019
Top 10s
Top 10 evil narrators
Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, American Psycho ... many of these books were originally condemned as immoral for humanising the evil at their heart
November 2018
Book clinic
Book clinic: which books best examine the nature of loneliness?
From Proust’s explorations of consciousness to Olivia Laing’s meditations on isolation, solitude is literature’s friend
September 2018
The Outsider review – Ben Okri adapts the Camus classic
Ben Okri: 'I was nearly shot because I couldn’t speak my dad’s language'
June 2018
Book clinic
Book clinic: which books best explain why life is worth living?
Art and authenticity: Frida Kahlo, fakes and the fate of a stolen work
April 2017
The Plague review – Neil Bartlett's ingenious update of Camus' chilling fable
Bartlett asks what this 1947 allegory of Nazi occupation means today in a striking production as focused on optimism as on despair
November 2016
Stranger things: Albert Camus' enigmatic outsider hits Berlin
The Schaubühne is staging the absurdist classic with three actors sharing the main role. Director Philipp Preuss reflects on what ‘otherness’ means in society
