When Tolstoy Met Trollope: On Sophie Ratcliffe’s “Loss, a Love Story”
Bob Blaisdell reviews Sophie Ratcliffe’s “Loss, a Love Story: Imagined Histories and Brief Encounters.”
Bob Blaisdell reviews Sophie Ratcliffe’s “Loss, a Love Story: Imagined Histories and Brief Encounters.”
Bob Blaisdell examines the public life of autofiction icon Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Bob Blaisdell reviews Gary Saul Morson’s “Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter.”
Bob Blaisdell examines new biographies of Anton Chekhov by Michael C. Finke and Donald Rayfield.
Marvin Mudrick, my touchstone for all things literary since I was 18, was born a hundred years ago, July 17, 1921, in Philadelphia. He was the...
Marvin Mudrick, my touchstone for all things literary since I was 18, was born a hundred years ago, July 17, 1921, in Philadelphia. He was the...
Bob Blaisdell is engrossed in Anne Carson’s reimagining of Euripides’s “The Trojan Women,” illustrated by Rosanna Bruno.
Bob Blaisdell talks with writer Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Bob Blaisdell reviews a new biography of the late, great Tom Terrific.
Viv Groskop’s new book is a passionate love letter to the classics of French literature.
Bob Blaisdell reviews “And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon,” the recently published collection of stories by Nikolai Gogol.
Bob Blaisdell gets to the bottom of Leo Tolstoy’s “Lives and Deaths: Essential Stories,” translated by Boris Dralyuk.