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London Review of Books Christmas Books

‘Tiens! Une madeleine?’

Michael Wood

  • A la recherche du temps perdu: Combray by Marcel Proust, edited by Stéphane Heuet
  • Proust among the Stars by Malcolm Bowie

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Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.

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