The Latest Breaking News from Albert Camus

Richard Flanagan: ‘When I reread Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop it had corked badly’

The Booker-winning author on taking inspiration from Kafka, and a youthful passion for Jackie Collins

The Guardian - UK · Jun 27, 2025

Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li review – a shattering account of losing two sons

The novelist’s meditation on grief, memory and radical acceptance contains both horror and comfort

The Guardian - UK · May 22, 2025

Sara Pascoe: I Am a Strange Gloop review – motherhood as Sisyphean struggle

The UK comedian’s standup set is both a dishy conversation with a friend and a thrilling rejection of the good mother archetype

The Guardian - AU · Apr 28, 2025

A Man With No Title by Xavier Le Clerc review – a poignant hymn to an Algerian father

A novelist’s reimagining of his late parent’s life is a potent memoir of marginalisation

The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2024

Women in translation month: a moving Algerian novel tracks the economic struggles of writers and publishers

French-Algerian publisher Edmond Charlot is the subject of the Algerian writer Kaouther Adimi’s third novel, and her first to be translated into English.

The Conversation · Aug 15, 2024

Is flirting dying? The apps appear to have swallowed the most delicate and delicious of human interactions

I was there for the coming of the apps and have lived long enough to now witness that the apps, it seems, have come for us

The Guardian - AU · Jul 20, 2024

The Guardian view on the power of brevity in the arts: an antidote to the blather of politics

Editorial: From the Marx Brothers to Albert Camus and Claire Keegan, concise storytelling can get to the heart of the matter

The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2024

The Quality of Love by Ariane Bankes review – delicious portrait of the Paget twins

This evocative account of the author’s mother and aunt – identical twin sisters who stole the hearts of London’s 1930s intelligentsia – captures their closeness and lust for life

The Guardian - UK · May 7, 2024

Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business

The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?

The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2023