In his slim but tightly packed “Proust Was a Neuroscientist” (Houghton Mifflin, 256 pages, $24), Jonah Lehrer, a nascent neuroscientist who worked in Eric Kandel’s laboratory, argues that, in ...

SITTING IN HER pink living room in Tahiti, Natti Tumahai reads in French from “In Search of Lost Time” as her family eats lunch: “I cannot say, looking back, how much of Albertine’s life was overlaid ...