“I’m reading Proust”: for months I’ve been saying this to myself in front of the mirror. When asked about what I’ve been up to in lockdown, I drop the phrase nonchalantly, as though A La Recherche du ...
During the war in Bosnia, I worked my way through the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” The novel, populated with 400 characters, was not an escape from the war. The specter ...
What to give literati who have everything? Eric Karpeles’ Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to ‘In Search of Lost What to give literati who have everything? Eric Karpeles’ Paintings in Proust: A ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Tim Rutten reviews Alfred Muñoz Molina’s ‘A Manuscript of Ashes,’ a book ...
Proust fans filled the Celeste Bartos Forum at the New York Public Library on Wednesday for an evening titled “The Proust Project: A Discussion With Latter-Day Disciples, Admirers, and Shameless ...
Reading Proust properly is a project for a lifetime, but acquainting oneself with the first volume of his masterwork, madeleines and all, should take just 20½ hours. That is how much time is set aside ...
06:00, Sun, Jun 22, 2025 Updated: 14:07, Sun, Jun 22, 2025 I’d heard of In Search of Lost Time before mostly in passing, usually mentioned with a mix of awe and dread by literature students and ...
Jane Smiley is an essayist and novelist. WHEN my editor sent me this book, he forgot to tell me not to read it, and therefore I neglected to not read it before beginning to write about it. On the ...
Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror , by Richard A. Clarke. Free Press, 304 pages, $27. If you’re reading these words, you could probably use a ...
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