Letters: Readers strike an encouraging note for those sceptical of the joys of Proust, saying it has plenty to make it worth perservering ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago, on Nov. 18, 1922, Marcel Proust breathed his last in Paris at age 51. His death, from pneumonia and a pulmonary abscess, was perhaps the final nail in the coffin of the belle ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...