Stories by lermontov

Excess and incest were meat and drink to the Byrons

Like No One They’d Ever Seen

Brief encounters and romps in the park: George Orwell and women

The Collective Body: Russian experiments in life after death

Through Clenched Teeth: The cold, frenzied genius of Kleist

What we can learn from Camus’s “The Plague”

Grandmothers of civilization: How menopause contributes to our species' success

The Power of the Passive Protagonist

The Ways of Dog to Mann

The Novel That Norman Mailer Didn’t Write (2013)

Exterminating the Grand Tour

The free-spirited women who tangled with Orwell and other literary lions

Dead Ends: Investigating a murder without a body in an archive marked by absence

The Astor Place Opera House Riot of 1849

An Evening With George Steiner

Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World

James Joyce’s grandson and the death of the stubborn literary executor

Smorgasbords Don’t Have Bottoms: Publishing in the 2010s

Cosmopolitan Cocktail

List of Prolific Writers

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