Sep 06, 2019
Week in review
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On Walt Whitman, Nazi design, and Russian bathhouses.
Topic: “Russia”
Aug 16, 2019
Week in review
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On Ai Weiwei, a second Chernobyl & the leftist distaste for Communist art.
Jun 10, 2019
Three Russians (and a pianistic Pole)
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The Philadelphia Orchestra in Carnegie Hall.
May 30, 2019
Secrets R Us protects its supply chain
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On Julian Assange, Russian collusion, and press freedom.
Apr 12, 2019
Trotsky on ice
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On lunch with Trotsky’s murder weapon at the new International Spy Museum.
Apr 12, 2019
Chewing the “could”
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On the Brexit delay and the Mueller report.
Mar 13, 2019
Another Russian connection in Washington
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On Eugene Onegin at the Washington National Opera.
Mar 11, 2019
The Critic’s Notebook
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On Diderot, Duran, a literary St. Patrick’s Day & more from the world of culture.
Notebook January 2019
Making book in Russia
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On the subject of gambling in canonical Russian literature.
Sep 10, 2018
From Slava! to Shostakovich
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On a BBC Proms performance of Shostakovich and Bernstein by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.