Stories by lermontov

Carrying a Single Life: On Literature and Translation

Giving him his due: Claire Lowdon on why we should still read John Updike

Walt Whitman in Russia: Three Love Affairs

The Trials of Vasily Grossman

A Hundred Unchildlike Lullabies

Oscar Wilde’s talk inspired his rise and led to his downfall

The Invention of the Beach Read

The Genesis of “Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom”

The Importance of Being Honest: Adrienne Rich on Secrets

Arthur Miller’s Shame

‘Orientalism,’ Then and Now

How Islam Shaped the West

The Repugnant Conclusion (2017)

Henri Bergson, Celebrity

The Many Afterlives of Robinson Crusoe

The Lost Art of Deadline Writing

Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another’s Misfortune

Psychic Healing at the End of History

Harold Bloom: Anti-Inkling?

What Is Hell? It Depends on Who You Ask

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