Jean Paul Sartre

Why did I choose to write an absurdist novel?

Declan Toohey on how his debut, Perpetual Comedown, came into being

Happening review: Unwanted pregnancy in 1960s France

Audrey Diwan’s award-winning study has the tension of a thriller

A Yamaha 50 isn’t ideal transport when you are in labour

It was the summer of 1981 when my first daughter was born

I of the beholder – Frank McNally on having an existential keyboard crisis

An Irishman’s Diary

Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of Breathless, dies aged 88

French actor, nicknamed Bébel, was one of country’s biggest stars in 1960s and 1970s

Should we cancel Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche?

Unthinkable: Famous philosophers are being reappraised in light of their prejudices

To the atheist Sartre: Thank you for this vivid incarnation of Jesus

French existentialist philosopher wrote nativity play while a prisoner of war

In a Word . . . People

‘Hell is other people’ is a line from the play Huis Clos/No Exit by French philosopher Jean- Paul Sartre

Micheál Martin wants us to have ‘a meaningful Christmas’ – but what does that mean?

Unthinkable: Perhaps existentialism can help us navigate the Taoiseach’s suggestion

John Creedon: The outsiders who left their names in Ireland

The influence of foreigners is still seen across Ireland’s place names today

Ghost of Juliette Gréco lingers over Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Paris Letter: Performer sang of her beloved city, of amour, rebellion and fleeting pleasures

Charlie Hebdo staff uphold ‘fight for liberty’ at trial over massacre

Wounded survivors testify in Paris detailing massacre which killed 12 of their colleagues

Ten philosophers to help us through the coronavirus crisis

Unthinkable: Sartre and Schopenhauer make the list but Peig Sayers deserves inclusion too

In a Word . . . Misanthrope