Mary Zimmerman is the type of auteur theater artist who doesn't so much write for the stage as craft her work on it. For "M. Proust," director Eric Rosen finds some ways to prettify this one-person ...

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 ...

Marcel Proust’s madeleine is the cliché cookie—a highbrow reference that’s penetrated pop culture. (Take the Sopranos episode in which Tony’s Proustian madeleine is a slice of cappicola.) The great ...

Marcel Proust was born on this day in 1871. Happy 143rd birthday, Marcel Proust! These days Proust is known as a genius, the author of the brilliant, mammoth novel, known as both “Remembrance of ...

Marcel Proust wrote “the idea of popular art…if not actually dangerous seemed to me ridiculous.” Locked far away from society in his cork-lined room (why cork? Why not? It blocked out useless sound ...

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 ...

In 1886, Antoinette Faure, the daughter of the future French President Félix Faure, asked her childhood friend Marcel Proust to fill out a questionnaire in a book titled “Confessions. An Album to ...

Adapted by Mary Zimmerman from Marcel Proust’s own writings and from the memoirs of his housekeeper, this one-woman show feels like a dramatized book report. It may be proof that Zimmerman, deprived ...