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Marcel Proust

French writer Patrick Modiano poses for journalists in Paris on October 9, 2014, after he was declared the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature.

And the Nobel Prize in Literature goes to — who?

Books

The Nobel Committee awarded its prize for literature to French novelist Patrick Modiano, a man who’s been called a modern-day Proust. Yet his work is relatively unknown in the English-speaking world despite his success in France.

What belongs on the Five Foot Book Shelf?

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

Studio 360 – Episode 847 – Dylan, Hamlet, Neuroscience – Proust was a Neuroscientist

The World

The science of gift giving

Environment
The World

In a modern-age whodunnit, the brain is used as evidence in an Indian trial

Environment
The World

Wine and breakfast cereal: how expectations warp experience

Environment

A growing body of scientific work has studied how what we perceive ?- or think we perceive ?- can have less to do with reality than we think. In light of recent findings, Jonah Lehrer, editor-at-large for Seed magazine and author of ‘Proust was a Neuroscientist,’ says it’s time to radically rethink notions like ‘you get what you pay for.’