Features March 2021
“Demons” at 150
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On Dostoevsky’s prophetic tale of societal decay.
Topic: “Russia”
Feb 19, 2021
Week in review
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On the Khazars & Russian churches.
Feb 01, 2021
Isaac Sligh & James Panero discuss Russia & beyond
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On travels in the Russian Arctic and in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia.
Reflections February 2021
Meeting Mrs. Mandelstam
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On the Russian writer Nadezhda Mandelstam.
Features February 2021
Solzhenitsyn & the engine of history
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On Solzhenitsyn’s World War I novels.
Sep 04, 2020
Week in review
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On Chekhov’s humor, medieval private life & Lenin in London.
Theater September 2020
Chekhov’s 2020 vision
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On the Russian doctor’s enduring diagnoses of societal ills.
Features September 2020
Gray mists & ancient stones
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An excerpt from Book Two of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s forthcoming memoir Between Two Millstones.
Jul 21, 2020
The Critic’s Notebook
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On Edwardian houses, Joan Thorne, early color photography & more.
Jun 12, 2020
Week in review
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On Wordsworth, Leonardo da Vinci & the Russian bath.