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Russia by Julia Trubikhina, Words without borders Campus Russia and the Former Soviet Union Confronting the Past: Russian Literature in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries At a Russian event at the PEN America World Voices Festival in May 2017, a story casually told by Elena Kostychneko, a courageous reporter for one of the last independent newspapers in Putin’s Russia,..

The greatest of all novelsOn Tolstoy’s masterpiece.by Gary Saul MorsonThe New Criterion, Features March 2019 Just 150 years ago, in 1869, Tolstoy published the final installment of War and Peace, often regarded as the greatest of all novels. In his time, Tolstoy was known as a nyetovshchik—someone who says nyet, or no, to all prevailing opinion—and War and Peace discredi..

Who Was the “Female Byron”? By Lucasta Miller Paris Review, February 27, 2019 Arts & Culture Artist, Henry William Pickersgill; Engraved by D. H. Robinson, L.E.L., 1852 Not many people know what happened to English literature between the end of the Romantics and the beginning of the Victorians. This troubling era in British cultural history has never been given a name; it..

#KoreaTooE. Tammy Kim The New York Review of BooksMarch 7, 2019 Issue 82 nyeon saeng Kim Ji-young [Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982] by Cho Nam-jooSeoul: Minumsa, 192 pp., 13,000 wonMinumsaCho Nam-joo, Seoul, November 2018 In October 2016 the Korean publishing house Minumsa released a short novel called Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982, the latest in a series of works of fiction by “toda..

Was this Soviet author a plagiarist or a stifled genius? By Peter Finn Peter Finn National security editorEmail Bio Follow National security editorThe Washington PostJanuary 31, 2019 Peter Finn, the national security editor at The Washington Post, is the coauthor of “The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA and the Battle Over A Forbidden Book.” Finn’s next book, “A Gue..

The Secret Language Of WeekdaysEver wonder why it’s called Tuesday? The origins of our modern weekday names go way back to ancient times. BY Steph KoyfmanBabbelJan 25, 2019 It really only takes a rudimentary grasp of basic astronomy to understand why we measure time with months and years. But why weeks? What is the special significance of seven days? And how far back can we t..

TS Eliot prize for poetry 'A star is born': TS Eliot prize goes to Hannah Sullivan's debut Poet’s ‘absolutely exhilarating’ first collection Three Poems takes £25,000 prize Sian Cain The Guardian Mon 14 Jan 2019 ‘Fresh and observant’ ... Hannah Sullivan Photograph: Adrian Pope Poet Hannah Sullivan has won the prestigious and lucrative TS Eliot prize for her first c..

via Penguin Classics Marcel Proust Was Almost Impossible to Edit Carol Clark on the Challenges of Editing and Translating The Prisoner Carol Clark Literary HubJanuary 8, 2019 Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share ..

Who decides what words mean Bound by rules, yet constantly changing, language might be the ultimate self-regulating system, with nobody in charge Lane Greene AEON Photo by Brooke Anderson Photography/Getty Lane Greene is an American writer and editor. He is the language columnist and an editor at The Economist, and his latest book is Talk on the Wild Side (2018). He lives in L..

Tolstoy Untangled: On Donna Tussing Orwin’s “Simply Tolstoy” By Bob Blaisdell LARB DECEMBER 25, 2018 TOLSTOY STARTED WRITING Anna Karenina at the end of March 1873 and finished it in the summer of 1877. He complained about the labor and regularly defamed the novel during and after its composition. In the midst of serializing it at the highest rate a Russian author had eve..