This is a re-upload because the old video was deleted on accident* The communist revolution in Russia, the Great War, the beurskrach in 1929, the Spanish civil war and the imminent threat of a new war ...

A huge cache of documents, which includes drafts of the famed madeleine passage, is for sale. France’s National Library is ...

The world’s grandest art dealer on summering in Capri, wading in warm St. Barts waters, his custom-made pool cue, and sitting ...

A new retrospective demonstrates how the artist makes ordinary things transcend themselves At the centre of Jyll Bradley’s ...

Music and photos can evoke memories and reminiscing but, in my opinion, it is the sense of smell that most strongly evokes ...

The Swedish Academy has awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature to László Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian novelist and ...

In this passage from Our Brains, Our Selves, winner of the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, neuroscientist Masud Husain recounts how novelist Marcel Proust became convinced, wrongly, that he' ...

Marcel Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps Perdu holds the record for the book most likely to be found alongside the Bible and Shakespeare on Radio 4’s celebrity-packed Desert Island. In part this ...

Six deeply introspective works by Marcel Proust that rethink time, memory, and identity, inviting you to slow down, introspect and witness your inner world with new eyes. Each volume unfolds with ...

PROUST: THE LATER YEARS by George D. Painter. 424 pages. Atlantic-Little Brown. $7.50. It was 1922. In a hermetically sealed bedroom at 44 rue Hamelin in Paris, the brilliant, untidy life of Valentin ...

THE PAST RECAPTURED—Marcel Proust —A. & C. Boni. Proustians, whose numbers are growing in all Western lands, say that the late great Marcel Proust (died Nov. 18, 1922), half-Jew, half-snob, ...