Marcel Proust

An Emotional Time Machine: How Our Sense of Smell Can Unlock Childhood Memories

Jonas Olofsson on the Science Behind the Hidden Olfactory Keys to Times Long Past

 
By Jonas Olofsson  January 13, 2025
Letters

In Search of a Time Lost: A Selection of Proust’s Letters Translated by Lydia Davis

By Literary Hub  November 6, 2024
Food Writing

The Poetry of the World’s First Cookbook: What Cooking Can Teach Writers and Translators

By Aditi Machado  October 21, 2024
The Hub

Meet the writer who added “lol” to the end of every sentence of In Search of Lost Time.

By James Folta  September 17, 2024
Travel

Book recommendations for every kind of summer person.

By James Folta  June 3, 2024
The Hub

Don’t take career advice from Bukowski, upgrade your hustle with these authors instead.

By James Folta  March 28, 2024
On Poetry

Dara Barrois/Dixon on the Lived Poetry of the Late James Tate

By Peter Mishler  November 28, 2023
public health

How Adrien Proust—Father of Marcel—Helped Pioneer Global Public Health

By Simon Schama  September 19, 2023
Humor

Was Marcel Proust A Comedian? On the Unexpected Humor of In Search of Lost Time

By Michael Wood  August 25, 2023
Reading Habits

On the Bad Binary of “Good” and “Bad” Literature

By Josh Cook  August 23, 2023
The Hub

Jeremy Strong’s book list is perfect for reading atop a bluff in strong and moody winds.

By Janet Manley  February 22, 2023
The Annotated Nightstand

The Annotated Nightstand: What Maira Kalman is Reading Now and Next

By Diana Arterian  October 20, 2022
What to Watch

Reading Proust in a Black and White World

By Catherine Nichols  August 23, 2022
The Writing Life

How To Live, Eat, and Drink Like Your Favorite Writers

By Literary Hub  March 28, 2022
Life in a Pandemic

10 Books for Being Alone

By Emily Temple  January 26, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Lydia Davis on How Translation Opens a Writer’s Mind

By Lydia Davis  December 3, 2021
Criticism

On Finally Being Old Enough
to Love Proust

By Adam Bonislawski  August 25, 2021
The Hub

A new Marcel Proust manuscript has been discovered—and you can read part of it right now.

By Walker Caplan  July 7, 2021
French Classics

Who is the Narrator of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time?

By Saul Friedländer  December 15, 2020
The History of Literature

To Read or Not to Read Proust’s Swann’s Way

By History of Literature  December 14, 2020
Letters

Who Exactly Was Rilke’s Young Poet Correspondent?

By Damion Searls  November 30, 2020
The Hub

For your consideration: New fetishes from classic literature.

By Jessie Gaynor  July 14, 2020
The Hub

Celebrate Marcel Proust’s birthday by baking these “very gay” madeleines.

By Dan Sheehan  July 10, 2020
Time

On Orlando, and Virginia Woolf’s Defiance of Time

By Theodore Martin  June 25, 2020
Literary History

On the horribly awkward night James Joyce met Marcel Proust. (I still crave literary parties.)

By Jonny Diamond  May 19, 2020
Literary History

Why Do Some Writers Burn Their Work?

By Alex George  May 15, 2020
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