Stories by lermontov

How Britain’s First Mission to China Went Wrong

Theatrical karaoke: on Dickens

Coming in from the Cold: On Spy Fiction

A Silver Thread: Islam in Eastern Europe

David Russell on the Victorian Essay

“The Idiot” Savant: On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot

Switching Off: Joseph Brodsky and the moral responsibility to be useless

Nabokov’s Dreams

What Happened to the Book Herman Melville Wrote After ‘Moby-Dick’?

A Brilliant 1895 Novel on the Emptiness of Literary Fame

Clarify Me, Please, God of the Galaxies

Associations of Thought: On Jane Austen

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)

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