Alexander Nehamas is Edmund N. Carpenter professor in humanities, professor of philosophy and professor of comparative literature at Princeton. He is the author of several books, including "Nietzsche: ...

Marcel Proust’s masterwork In Search of Lost Time, published in seven volumes from 1913 through 1927, is as much a rumination on the slip and slide of time as it is a time capsule. In it is bottled ...

Matthew Sweet gathers together four Proust fans from very different backgrounds - the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Jane Smiley, the psychotherapist, Jane Haynes, Christopher Prendergast, who has a ...

Marcel Proust’s madeleine is the cliché cookie—a highbrow reference that’s penetrated pop culture. (Take the Sopranos episode in which Tony’s Proustian madeleine is a slice of cappicola.) The great ...

In 1995, Penguin UK announced a new translation of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, with a different translator in charge of each of the seven volumes. This marked the first entirely fresh ...

Marcel Proust wrote “the idea of popular art…if not actually dangerous seemed to me ridiculous.” Locked far away from society in his cork-lined room (why cork? Why not? It blocked out useless sound ...

The decadently deductive Marcel Proust, the “first to faithfully describe memory,” composed prose that neuroscientists would do well to read, writes Jonah Lehrer, a contributing editor of the magazine ...

“Health in the Time of Marcel Proust” will showcase literature, medical equipment, archival materials and more from the Belle Époque, France’s golden age. The dramatic changes include technological ...

Proust’s mid-career struggles with writing led him to art criticism, which provides clues to the qualities prized by readers of In Search of Lost Time. Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on ...