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Funny and full of sex: why you should read Proust’s In Search of Lost Time

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

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5 Psychological Tricks To Boost Happiness — Even on a Tight Budget

People say that money can't buy happiness, but it doesn't always feel true. However, living on a budget doesn't have to make you feel less happy.

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Nostalgic foods and scents like fresh-cut grass and hamburgers grilling bring comfort, connection and well-being

Walking around my neighborhood in the evening, I am hit by the smells of summer: fresh-cut grass, hamburgers grilling and a hint of swimming pool chlorine. These are also the smells of summers from my adolescence, and they remind me of Friday evenings at the community pool with my friends…

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Edmund White obituary

One of the leading gay writers of his generation known for his bestseller A Boy’s Own Story and his biography of Jean Genet

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Kevin Lambert Proves That Literature Can Still Be an Invigorating Slap in the Face

His elegant and vicious new novel tracks the fall of a good billionaire

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The French rose from Manchester: in search of Proust’s forgotten muse

The poignant story of the Englishwoman Marie Nordlinger is told in a new book about her life with the writer

The Guardian - UK

Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words by Michael Peppiatt review – glimpses of a demon-driven genius

Despite the painter’s lack of ‘epistolary fluency’, this collection of his writings – from drunken interviews to begging letters – offers some insight into his working methods and private life

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French baked goods: Having your 'viennoiserie' and naming it too

Whether they're called a "chocolatine" or a "pain au chocolat", a "pain au raisin" or an "escargot", French pastries are meant to taste good! In this edition we explore some of the often confusing – and even potentially embarrassing – terms for French baked goods. We also discover how madeleines…

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Best French novels of all time for a window into the Gallic soul

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Knausgaard's ambitious new novel imagines Europe's last decades – ending with an ominous star and the return of the dead

The Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard is a 21st-century literary phenomenon. Talked up as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he has been compared to some of the greatest writers of all time: Fyodor Dostovesky, Marcel Proust, Roberto Bolaño. His work challenges conventional assumptions about content and form,…

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Hypochondriacs die earlier than those who worry less about their health – what might explain this paradox?

People who worry excessively about their health tend to die earlier than those who don’t, a recent study from Sweden has found. It seems strange that hypochondriacs who, by definition, worry yet have nothing wrong with them, should enjoy shorter lifespans than the rest of us. Let’s find out more.

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The exhilarating world of used books

Leakey's is the largest second-hand bookshop in the UK, founded in 1979 by Charles Leakey. His son, Sam, and I talked in his office at the shop in Inverness, Scotland. Sam told me they collect as many books as they can and readers buy as many as they wish. I…

The Hindu

Letter: AS Byatt obituary

David Johnson writes: She admitted, without being boastful, that she had read Proust twice

The Guardian - UK

Five Great Reads: buried horrors, catching out ChatGPT and tools from a war zone

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

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Every Reference and Easter Egg in the 'Barbie' Movie, Explained

From '2001: A Space Odyssey' to Marcel Proust.

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Barbie Easter eggs: 20 references you might have missed

From movie references to discontinued dolls

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Lucian Freud portrait of daughter Isobel expected to fetch up to £20m at auction

Ib Reading, not seen in public for more than 20 years, was result of more than 70 sittings

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‘The Penitent Magdalene’ Returns to Heirs after Being Looted by Nazis

A Paris court ordered Christie's auction house to return a painting stolen by the Nazis to the heirs of its owner, a cousin of writer Marcel Proust. Occupying Nazi forces seized "The Penitent Magdalene" by Dutch artist Adriaen van der Werff (1659-1722) from Lionel Hauser, according to Agence France Press…

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Podcast: Football frenzy, foie gras alternatives, Proust forever

Unpicking France's win against Morocco in World Cup semi-final; finding "ethical" alternatives to force-fed foie gras; and why it's worth reading Marcel Proust, 100 years after his death.

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Reading Proust in wartime

A century after his death, Marcel Proust's depiction of a vanished world transformed by war is acutely relevant

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Where to start with: Marcel Proust

One hundred years after the French writer’s death, translator Lucy Raitz suggests some good ways into his work

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France's national library celebrates Proust 100 years after his death

France's Marcel Proust, who died 100 years ago this week, is regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time. To mark the anniversary, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France is hosting a major exhibition in Paris, where some of the secrets of Proust's 2,400-page novel "In Search of Lost…

France 24

French film boldly goes into the realm of sci-fi

From the new wave of French language sci-fi movies to Paris's immersive movie experience bringing you face-to-face with an Arnold Schwarzenegger lookalike, plus a visit to an exhibition commemorating 100 years since the death of French literary giant Marcel Proust, join Eve Jackson for a look at the week's culture…

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Reading Proust aloud: ‘How can it be that deeply flawed and terrible humans have the capacity to create?’

One hundred years after his death, our daily reading shows us that humans can conjure the utterly extraordinary

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When Marcel Proust talks physics

The 100th anniversary of Marcel Proust’s death gives us an opportunity to remember his masterwork, In Search of Lost Time, a sort of French-style Divine Comedy first released in 1913. Much like the way Dante’s 13th-century work forms a neat summary of Medieval wisdom, In Search of Lost Time attempts…

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