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, ...

PROUST: THE EARLY YEARS (435 pp.) —George D. Painfer—Atlantic-Little, Brown ($6.50). Life is the novelist’s first draft. This elementary fact periodically brings out the detective in some critics and ...

For her newest work, author and illustrator Maira Kalman collaborated with musician David Byrne to create “American Utopia,” a book based on the Broadway show of the same name. Kalman’s signature wry, ...

In “Living and Dying With Marcel Proust,” Christopher Prendergast presents an appreciation and a guide to the writer and his masterpiece. By Edmund White LIVING AND DYING WITH MARCEL PROUST by ...

LETTERS OF MARCEL PROUST (462 pp.)—Translated and edited by Mina Curtiss—Random House ($5). In the last 17 years of his life, Marcel Proust spent the greater part of his waking time ransacking his ...

"My book is a painting," Marcel Proust said, as he neared the end of his life and life’s work. The book, "In Search of Lost Time," has also been compared to a cathedral, a kaleidoscope, the ...

Update, May 11, 2016: We have a winner! Laura and Willa will be reading Willa Cather’s My Ántonia. You’ll find their discussion in your Slate Plus podcast feed in two months. To discuss the book with ...

A copy of Marcel Proust's "Swann's Way" which he dedicated to his "little darling", sold for 1.51 million euros ($1.7 million) in Paris Friday -- a world record for a French book, auction house ...

CASANOVA’S CHINESE RESTAURANT (229 pp.)—Anthony Powell—Little, Brown ($4). Anthony Powell, a novelist whom British Critic V.S. Pritchett has ranked with Evelyn Waugh, and whom Evelyn Waugh has ranked ...

Perry Anderson is an intellectual historian with a special interest in Marxism. As a former editor of Britain’s New Left Review, a political slant has been central to his work since the early 1960s.

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 ...

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 ...