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.
Topic: “Russia”
Theater September 2020
Chekhov’s 2020 vision
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On the Russian doctor’s enduring diagnoses of societal ills.
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.
Features June 2020
The God that flickered
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On Alexander Herzen and the revolutionary mind.
Jan 23, 2020
A terrible Ivan
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On Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish by Charles J. Halperin.
Books January 2020
Cosmopolitan cocktail
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Oct 07, 2019
Gary Saul Morson & James Panero discuss “Leninthink”
featuring
An interview occasioned by The New Criterion’s first annual Circle Lecture.
Features October 2019
Leninthink
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On the pernicious legacy of Vladimir Lenin.
Sep 06, 2019
Week in review
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On Walt Whitman, Nazi design, and Russian bathhouses.