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It’s only January 3, but one thing is clear already: 2024 is going to be the Year of Reading Proust. Everyone, but everyone, on social media is boasting of their firm resolution to do so. The great Ryan Ruby has just published this fine piece on our favorite bedridden French mama’s boy. I thought in light of all of this now would be a good time to share with my free subscribers the big “Proust piece” I myself wrote in 2021.

The new TV series, Feud: Capote vs the Swans tells the story behind Answered Prayers, the never-finished gossip novel that made its author a social pariah. But what was in the book – and was it any good?

Damion Searls considers his new translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus and argues for a literary approach to translating rigorous philosophical texts.

‘Unanswered Prayers,’ on the death and life of Truman Capote, first appeared in the February 9, 1976, issue of New York Magazine. ‘My life is so strange — it’s not like anybody else’s,’ Capote said.

In FX's "Feud: Capote vs. the Swans," the second season of Ryan Murphy's anthology series, Tom Hollander plays Truman Capote, and Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Molly Ringwald, Calista Flockhart and Demi Moore the women who are in and out of his life.

Did you know how many of your favorite Marvel and DC characters were Jewish?

Harry and Meghans cheerleader-in-chief, who is based in east London, accuses King Charles and Prince William of scheming against one another.

Comparing the late Queen and King Charles as monarchs, Omid Scobie wrote in Endgame that even aides on Charles team are fully aware of the difference in popularity between them.

Throughout his career, Paul Holdengräber has chronicled the times we live in by interviewing artists, writers, and thinkers, and he remained a curator of public…

Corporate hotshots shouldn't try to imagine the past or the future, with or without AI. Leave that to the writers