Sep 04, 2020
Week in review
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On Chekhov’s humor, medieval private life & Lenin in London.
On Chekhov’s humor, medieval private life & Lenin in London.
On the Russian doctor’s enduring diagnoses of societal ills.
An excerpt from Book Two of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s forthcoming memoir Between Two Millstones.
On Edwardian houses, Joan Thorne, early color photography & more.
On Wordsworth, Leonardo da Vinci & the Russian bath.
On Alexander Herzen and the revolutionary mind.
On Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish by Charles J. Halperin.
An interview occasioned by The New Criterion’s first annual Circle Lecture.
On the pernicious legacy of Vladimir Lenin.