In “The Writer’s Room,” Ms. Lewin, who lectures on 20th- and 21st-century literature at Coventry University, takes us on a winding and often surprising tour of the writing spaces associated with the ...

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 ...

France’s Marcel Proust, who died 100 years ago on Friday, is regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time. France’s Marcel Proust, who died 100 years ago on Friday, is regarded as one of the ...

Here’s a delicious little bonbon for those who like sophisticated humor. The deeper your knowledge of French literature and history, the more fully you’ll be able to appreciate the delicate weaponry ...

Andre Aciman is the author of "Out of Egypt: A Memoir" and "False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory." Toward the end of a tour of Marcel Proust’s childhood home in Illiers-Combray, the visitor is led ...

Almost 100 years after his death, fans of Marcel Proust will be getting a new book from the late French writer. Publisher Editions de Fallois announced that it will release nine unpublished novellas ...

The sheer pleasure of baked goods is always transportive. By Hanya Yanagihara A huge cache of documents, which includes drafts of the famed madeleine passage, is for sale. France’s National Library is ...

One night in Paris in the winter of 1916, at around 11 p.m., the distinguished French violinist and quartet leader Gaston Poulet was already in his pajamas when the doorbell rang. He opened it to find ...