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On Not Talking about Gender in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
As a graduate student in Russian literature, I wrote a dissertation and eventually a book about the body and the grotesque in nineteenth-century realism. As I look back, I can’t...
An interview with Donna Orwin on her new book, "Simply Tolstoy"
We heard that Donna Orwin had just published a new book called "Simply Tolstoy" and had to find out all about it.
The Soviet Moral Gray Zone: From Kantian Deontology to Maternal Ethics in Vassily Grossman’s "Everything Flows"
In the context of the Holocaust and other twentieth-century mass traumas, the Kantian Categorical Imperative, which underscores ethical transgression, can at times appear inadequate.
Try a Little Tenderness: An Immigrant Story
All I have left from the first 14 years of my life is an envelope of old photographs.
Immigrant Stories: A New Rubric at All the Russias
It seems like a good time to take pride in the diverse immigrant roots of our field by gathering immigrant stories.
How Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ Can Inspire Those Who Fear Trump’s America
I can’t see Tolstoy wearing a pink pussy hat.
Candid about the Camera: Tolstoy Scholars on Adapting Anna Karenina
Tolstoy can be so unforgiving with his ladies.
Dostoevsky, Demons, and The Donald
It’s never a good sign when real life resembles a Dostoevsky novel.
Marital Happy Endings and Cultural Politics in a Contemporary Australian Adaptation of Anna Karenina
In our time, there is a definite expectation that people know what they want and ensure their own happiness.
Love (Not Death): A Postmodern Tolstoy in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina
Despite flaws of both execution and interpretation, this most recent adaptation displays a genuinely intelligent understanding Tolstoy’s novel.