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Gary Saul Morson

Gary Saul Morson is the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and a Professor in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department at Northwestern. His latest book is Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities, cowritten with Morton Schapiro. (November 2020)

Ilya Repin: Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, 1885

Truly Terrible

Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish

by Charles J. Halperin

February 27, 2020 issue

Stalingrad, 1942

In Search of an Honest Man

Vasily Grossman’s ‘Stalingrad’

Stalingrad

by Vasily Grossman, translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler, edited by Robert Chandler and Yuri Bit-Yunan

Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century

by Alexandra Popoff

October 10, 2019 issue

The Right Supper

April 19, 2018 issue

A photograph of Isaac Babel taken by the NKVD after his arrest, circa 1939

The Horror, the Horror

Isaac Babel crafted a style to shock readers into seeing the strangeness before their eyes

The Essential Fictions

by Isaac Babel, edited and translated from the Russian by Val Vinokur

Red Cavalry

by Isaac Babel, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk

Odessa Stories

by Isaac Babel, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk

February 8, 2018 issue

Letter

Gregory Freidin

The Right Supper

April 19, 2018 issue

Playing Cards with Pushkin

May 25, 2017 issue

Alexander Pushkin; painting by Pyotr Konchalovsky, 1932

Will We Ever Pin Down Pushkin?

Strolls with Pushkin

by Andrei Sinyavsky, translated from the Russian by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy and Slava I. Yastremski

The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship

by Alex Beam

Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin

translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

March 23, 2017 issue

Letter

Alexander Dolinin

Playing Cards with Pushkin

May 25, 2017 issue

‘Herzen Against Herzen’; photograph by Sergei Lvovich Levitsky, 1865

Herzen: The Hero of Skeptical Idealism

The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen

by Aileen M. Kelly

November 24, 2016 issue

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