Masturbation is seldom far from the chatter that bubbles up among devotees and scholars of Marcel Proust. This week in Paris another conclave of hyper-Proustians is gathering sponsored by the very crusty INHA, or the French National Institute on the History of Art and their German analogues based in Berlin.
Alona Elkayam | Posted 03.28.2012
While Woody focuses on the idea that every generation thinks the previous generation was simpler, Ms. Stern focuses on something less debatable: Lost time. All Ms. Stern wants is for us to put our iPhones down.
Elana Estrin | Posted 11.01.2011
Correspondence can speak volumes about the letter-writer. From idiosyncratic letterheads to sketches, stamps, cartoons and multiple-choice form letters, what do a letter's illustrations reveal?
Dave Astor | Posted 10.12.2011
I realize that continuing to slog through a novel that says "stop reading me" after 100 pages may pay dividends when I reach the end of the book. Dense can turn into sophisticated, confusing into illuminating.
Dave Astor | Posted 10.08.2011
They were unplanned "Five-Year Plans" for the ages: the amazing proliferation of classic novels published from 1846 to 1851 and from 1922 to 1927. And, believe it or not, one author had a book in both those periods!
GalleyCat | Jason Boog on August 2, 2011 2:57 PM | Posted 10.02.2011
To match our romantic bookstore marriage proposal story from last week, reader Stephanie Campisi sent us the story of library marriage proposal....
Meg Wolitzer | Posted 06.06.2011
Here are ten other beds that don't include a good night's sleep.
Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011
Larry was intellectual, literary, and one of the most brainy artists of his generation, but there was always the feeling in the art world that the more intellectual the artist, the less talented the painter.
Posted 05.25.2011
Since 1901, the Nobel Committee has honored outstanding individuals in the fields of science, peace and literature with a medal, personal diploma, cas...
guardian.co.uk | Nicholas Royle | Posted 05.25.2011
Their writings help us see in different and remarkable ways the extent to which literature and telephones are in cahoots. When the phone starts ringin...
Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011
Proust evoked a flood of memories in Remembrance of Things Past by tasting a scallop-shaped cake dipped in tea. We might have to go the same way, savoring the local foods we love before they're lost to us forever.
Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011
Salinger gave my generation a permission to write about our lives, our very ordinary adolescent times. He gave us our voice, our right to be serious in our own postwar, perhaps over-privileged, tones.
David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011
In The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives, Brian Dillon goes into gory detail in describing the afflictions -- or presumed afflictions -- gripping the nonet.
Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.17.2011
Deaf and near-deaf people such as myself operate in a world I think was best captured by classical Chinese painters. Their pictures have no middle distance: we see figures in the foreground, and we see mountains in the far ground, but what we see in the middle is left to the imagination and must be perceived.
Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011
The Jewish Museum is the perfect setting for this stunning major retrospective of Many Ray in all his multiple phases and innovations.
Frank Browning | Posted 04.07.2012