Solzhenitsyn: A Conservative Writer for All Seasons
But hated by Bolshevik-driven American journalism.
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But hated by Bolshevik-driven American journalism.
Being human is something far more complex and beautiful than the habit of ideological repetition can show us. We miss that if we submit to the current morphing of reality in the service of clichés that condemn us to an inanimate fake life.
Writers feted by ‘Sard Al Thahab Award’ reveal what prompted them to create the plots
The Kremlin claims to have cut ties with the West and turned east, but the facts say otherwise. Putin's Russia has renewed with its old 19th century imperial image, captured by the mid-century Crimean War when Russia was at odds with everyone in the Old World. As Moscow neglects its Eurasian expanses, Beijing is stepping in to fill the gap.
The current (May 12) issue of the New York Review of Books carries Gary Saul Morson's chilling essay/review (behind the NYRB paywall) taking up March 1917: The Red Wheel/Node III (8 March–31 March): Book 3 and Between Two Millstones: Book 2, Exile in America, 1978–1994, the most recent of the books by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to be translated and published in English. Professor Morson channels Solzhenitsyn's thinking on the preface to