Mar 05, 2021
Week in review
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On the Sistine Chapel, William Walton & Alexander Griboedov.
Topic: “Russian Literature”
Reflections February 2021
Meeting Mrs. Mandelstam
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On the Russian writer Nadezhda Mandelstam.
Features January 2021
Fyodor Dostoevsky: philosopher of freedom
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On the political and moral lessons of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Nov 06, 2020
Week in review
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On Nikolai Gogol, charlatans & the history of magic.
Features November 2020
One hundred years of “We”
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On the legacy of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s seminal dystopian novel.
Jul 14, 2020
The Critic’s Notebook
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On Pushkin, Bach, the passive voice & more.
Features March 2019
The greatest of all novels
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On Tolstoy’s masterpiece.
Books February 2019
Optimists, not madmen
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Jan 07, 2019
The Critic’s Notebook
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On imaginative conservatism, a resurrected Moses oratorio, Luigi Valadier and the pope & 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.