Stories by lermontov

A Short History of the Executioner (2014)

Mata Hari with a Clockwork Eye, Alligators in the Sewer (1963) [pdf]

The Imaginative Reality of Ursula K. Le Guin

Floating in the Air: The World That Made Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment

Reader Discretion Advised: On profanity and the sublime in poetry

On collecting memories: An interview with writer and essayist Adam Gopnik

Agatha Christie’s life rivaled the mysteries she created

What Did Napoleon Like to Eat and Drink? (2015)

Literature Shrugged: Worse than hatred of literature is indifference

Bohemian Tragedy: The rise and fall of George Sterling’s California arts colony

A forgotten theory of dreams that inspired Vladimir Nabokov

A Day at a Time: Christa Wolf’s Life Under Surveillance

Celebrating 50 years of an unforgettable tale of the desert

The Lost Modernist: David Jones

The Breakup Museum: Archiving the Way We Were

Exquisite Corpse: The Winter of 1947 in Europe

The Strange and Twisted Life of “Frankenstein”

The turmoil and talent of Charlotte Salomon

Charles Sprawson wrote a celebrated book, then vanished

How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis

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