THE other night I picked up, quite by accident, Tolstoy’s story “The Master and the Worker” in German translation, and having started reading it, I could not stop until I reached the end. I had read ...

“It was perhaps inevitable that a man who did nothing by half-measures would experience something beyond the typical mid-life crisis,” Rosamund Bartlett writes in her 2010 biography of Leo Tolstoy. At ...

The radical politics of Russian literature’s most famous English translator, Constance Garnett. By Jennifer Wilson The action late Friday was the latest in a series of steps by Ukraine to distance ...