Marcel Proust

The verbose programming language felt like a universal form of communication—until it didn't.

NPR's A Martínez speaks with Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen about their new EP, Rêve, featuring piano duets by lesser-known composers influenced by — or rejecting — French Impressionism.

Art from ancient to new is being sold in galleries, auction houses and Frieze Masters this autumn

"What makes liberalism distinct is a perpetual commitment to reform," says the New Yorker writer and author of A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism.

"A Body Made of Glass," by Caroline Crampton; "Little Seed," by Wei Tchou; "Faraway the Southern Sky," by Joseph Andras; and "The Ministry of Time," by Kaliane Bradley.

Jerome Groopman reviews "Why We Remember," by the neuropsychologist Charan Ranganath, an account of how memory operates in our brains.

What? The Barbenheimer set doesn't like madelines?

Justin Chang reviews the Romanian director Radu Jude's TikTok-tinged "Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World," starring Ilinca Manolache.

Did Capote really turn away a "murderess" at his "party of the century"? And did Happy Rockefeller really ruin Babe Paley's sheets like … that?

This week, a Truman Capote story from early in his career will be published for the first time

The renowned author talks about fiction, fame, fatherhood, the elasticity of time, the hell of immortality, and much, much more.

It's often healthier to embrace the possibility of a new family dynamic and let go of punishing old patterns

For half a century, AromaPrime has been creating historically accurate scents for museum exhibits and heritage attractions. Carly Hilts spoke to Heritage Scenting Consultant Liam R Findlay to learn more about how smells can help to conjure up the distant past.

Or, why you should read "Gravity's Rainbow" fifty years later.

We crave anything salty or sweet as children, but our sense of taste often becomes more complex over time. Here's the science behind our ever-evolving taste buds.

According to observations and cosmological simulations, dwarf galaxies are the most abundant type of galaxies in the early Universe and the galaxy merger rate is dominated by dwarfs.

It's easy to become blasé about the built world. Tune in more deeply and architectural adventures await around each corner

William Benton on a passage from in the seventh volume ("Time Regained") of the French author Marcel Proust's autobiographical novel "In Search of Lost Time."

Two new books by the French novelist mark a political turn in his writing.

Here is a dichotomy about writers that I want to introduce: there are sculptors and there are speakers.