Features March 2019
The greatest of all novels
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On Tolstoy’s masterpiece.
Topic: “Russian Literature”
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.
Features October 2018
Totalitarian physics & moral threshing
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On the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Vasily Grossman’s great anti-Soviet novel Life and Fate.
Aug 03, 2018
Week in review
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On Russian populism, good art and bad people, MoMA on the move & more.
Jul 18, 2018
Boris? He was good enough
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On a new production of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov at the Paris Opera.
Features May 2018
“The Idiot” savant
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On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot.
Features March 2018
Soviet fate, Russian hope
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On Nadezhda Mandelstam’s literary achievements.
Features October 2017
Solzhenitsyn’s cathedrals
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On the literary works of the Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.