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Tolstoy
August 19, 2020
Jennifer Wilson
The Everyday Inspiration for
Anna Karenina
Did distractions, disruptions, and gossip shape Tolstoy’s novel as much as long-simmering ideas about morality and desire?
July 23, 2018
Jennifer Wilson
Making It in Capitalist Moscow
A Russian-American graduate student struggles for authenticity in Keith Gessen’s novel “A Terrible Country.”
July 6, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Did you hear that the Chilcot Report is longer than
War and Peace
?
December 8, 2015
Laura Marsh
Forget
Moby-Dick
marathons, Russia is reading
War and Peace
.
December 1, 2015
Laura Reston
British academics are outraged that a forthcoming BBC miniseries of
War and Peace
includes nudity and incest.
February 10, 2014
Irving Howe
Boris Pasternak Lived In The Wrong Century
Irving Howe on the tragedy of our twentieth-century Tolstoy
September 9, 2013
The New Republic Staff
Yes, Footage of Tolstoy Exists. Here It Is.
Video is available for this article
July 1, 2013
Mikhail Shishkin
Poets and Czars
From Pushkin to Putin: the sad tale of democracy in Russia
January 27, 2011
Sherwin B. Nuland
Fitness and Outrage
January 29, 2007
Joseph Frank
Being and Laziness
June 2, 1982
Martin Green
Man of Masks
A review of two books on Leo Tolstoy
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