The First Russian An unfinished novel about his African great-grandfather provides the best sense of how Pushkin considered his own Blackness. Peter the Great’s African: Experiments in Prose by Alexander Pushkin, translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and Boris Dralyuk, edited by Robert Chandler August 18, 2022 issue
From the Battlefield to ‘Little Women’ Louisa May Alcott’s letters home from the front lines, later published as Hospital Sketches (1863), proved that her true gift lay not in inventing new worlds, but in observing the one around her. August 28, 2019
