"Sartre and Camus’s love-hate relationship was played out and reflected in their on-off romance with America. As Camus put it, 'It is necessary to fall in love … if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.' Above all the two thinkers emphasize that America is always balanced precariously, like a tight-rope walker, on the thread of a philosophical dialectic."
Andy Martin in The New York Times contrasts the experiences of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus in New York.
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