| 单词 | Tolstoy |
| 例句 | The theory relieved me of certain troubling questions—this is the point of nationalism—and it gave me my Tolstoy. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The insight was precocious, anticipating as it did the distinction between history as experienced and history as remembered, most famously depicted in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Then Mr. Mikoyan would read me quotes from Tolstoy, whom he considered the greatest of all Russian authors, to copy onto the blackboard. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But his grandfather had recently gone blind, and he had requested Ashoke’s company specifically, to read him The Statesman in the morning, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy in the afternoon. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Just make a few changes, and you have the famous first sentence of Tolstoy’s great novel Anna Karenina: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One book that I returned to many times was Tolstoy’s great work, War and Peace. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, I hate to argue with a Bussian genius, but Tolstoy didn’t know Indians. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Where was Leo Tolstoy when I needed him? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Tolstoy, of course, as an omniscient narrator, also provides a running commentary, establishing what it was that the combatants were all, willy-nilly, conspiring to bring about. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When I got to my room, I found Takumi sitting on the couch, reading my biography of Tolstoy “Uh, hi,” I said. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Gordy gave me this book by a Bussian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z He read it in a couple of days and, after a conversation with the school librarian, moved on to Tolstoy’s War and Peace, a thousand-page novel. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Thus, Tolstoy would have approved of the insight offered in another context by an earlier author, Saint Matthew: “Many are called, but few are chosen.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He’d clap his hands, happy with Tolstoy and my perfect spelling. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, one of the books found in the bus with his remains was a collection of stories that included Tolstoy’s "The Kreutzer Sonata,” in which the nobleman-turned-ascetic denounces "the demands of the flesh.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This face needs someone like Dickens, or maybe Tolstoy. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Not real fun, of course, since I’d heard him brag to people that he had a “fifteen-year-old who is reading Tolstoy.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z And she took it back to the legacy of Queen Nzinga—my Tolstoy—the very same Nzinga whose life I wished to put in my trophy case. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I wanted “Tolstoy is the Tolstoy of the Zulus” to immediately be obvious to you. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z By that sentence, Tolstoy meant that, in order to be happy, a marriage must succeed in many different respects: sexual attraction, agreement about money, child discipline, religion, in-laws, and other vital issues. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘It did not occur to him,’ writes Tolstoy of Andrei, ‘that he was in love with Miss Rostov.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In fact, Bellow was no closer to Tolstoy than I was to Nzinga. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Tolstoy was “white,” and so Tolstoy “mattered,” like everything else that was white “mattered.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Yep, so let me pour a drink for Tolstoy and let him think hard about the true definition of unhappy families. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z He sailed past books by Tolstoy and Thackeray. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “Like something from Tolstoy, isn’t it?” he remarked. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z This applies to Shakespeare too, of course — perhaps another cause of Tolstoy’s resentment? Harold Bloom Is Dead. But His ‘Rage for Reading’ Is Undiminished. 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Tolstoy writing about his own early years is one I often return to. Claire Tomalin’s Favorite Fictional Heroine? It ‘Must Be Natasha’ in ‘War and Peace’ 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Austen’s cult has been rivalled by the cults of Dickens, Tolstoy, Eliot, Joyce, Hemingway, Lawrence, and Fitzgerald, among others. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z “The more we try to explain such events in history reasonably, the more unreasonable and incomprehensible do they become to us,” Tolstoy suggests, in “War and Peace.” How Much Longer Will MoviePass Last? 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z The more artefacts I see under glass, the less I know about Tolstoy. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z Balzac was difficult; Tolstoy was difficult; my mother can be difficult. Portrait of the artist: Angela Gheorghiu, soprano 2011-07-18T21:31:00Z Vladimir Tolstoy, the great-great grandson of Leo Tolstoy and a cultural affairs adviser to Mr. Putin, conveyed the decision in a letter that was posted quietly on the Hermitage’s Web site last week. ArtsBeat: Russian Government Decides Against Recreating Museum Shut by Stalin 2013-07-19T15:53:35Z “Please send our best regards to our czar and tell him we respect him very much,” one woman told Mr. Tolstoy, who nodded cheerfully. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z I'm distracted by a woman called Nadezhda who is taking a bunch of roses to lay on Tolstoy's grave and when I look round my guide is walking away. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z There are very few genius-clusters in literary history like the murderer’s row of great 19th century Russian writers: Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Lermontov, Chekhov. Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way 2012-11-28T16:30:53Z I will occasionally read classics — Dickens, Tolstoy, Proust — or terrific contemporary novelists. Jane Fonda Likes to Curl Up With a Good Book, Among the Dead 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Tolstoy, Turgenev, Pasternak, Chekhov, check them all off; Groskop is just sorry there’s only one woman, the sublime Anna Akhmatova, on her list. Review | The surprising — and surprisingly funny — lessons one woman learned from Russian literature 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z I experienced the enchanting postmodern swirl of this musical adaptation of part of Leo Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace” from one of the onstage café tables at the Imperial Theatre. And the winner is ... a tie? Why this year's Tony Awards are so impossible to predict 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z I was able to find a few other photos of Tolstoy on the court. Why Tolstoy Took Up Tennis 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z In his “The Life of Tolstoy: Later Years,” Maude, thirty years younger than Tolstoy, recounts actually playing tennis with him. Why Tolstoy Took Up Tennis 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z “Humane” begins and ends with Leo Tolstoy, a committed pacifist who believed that trying to make war more humane was like trying to make chattel slavery more humane. The Dangers of Making War Less Dangerous 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Her website recommends Dickens' "David Copperfield," noting it was a favorite of Tolstoy's. Winfrey picks 2 Dickens novels for book club 2010-12-05T21:46:00Z Unlike Tolstoy he gives considerable space to the equally interesting and significant events of 1813 when Alexander fought Napoleon in Central Europe. Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z Among his other books are “Tolstoy and the Novel” and “Shakespeare and Tragedy.” John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z But in the way that Knausgaard writes about falling in love, he sounds much more like Tolstoy—or a more tenderhearted, and less bawdy, version of Roth or Bellow—than Ferrante. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z It can only be a matter of time before someone makes a reboot of The Last Station where Leo Tolstoy raps and has a cheeky pet monkey. A Twilight reboot? My blood's racing 2012-06-22T14:50:03Z His activism continued at Tolstoy College; at one protest, he brought his four-year-old daughter, Deirdre, along. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Saturday lunchtime is the rush hour for weddings at the Tolstoy estate. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z “Today is a breakthrough to normal life,” Vladimir Tolstoy, the culture adviser for President Vladimir Putin, told reporters at the market’s opening. Moscow book fair brings out Pushkin fans, lockdown-weary 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z But, like most Russians, Mr. Tolstoy is full-throated in his support of Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea, a territory that many Russians believe should not have been ceded to Ukraine by Khrushchev in 1954. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The Tolstoy House Museum, where Tolstoy and his family lived during winters in the 1880s and 1890s, is on a well-groomed, rustic parcel, just across the river from Gorky Park. Russia’s Literary Icons, Explored on a Budget 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Birth and death, loss and joy ... it's not so far off Tolstoy. Can fiction give life to childbirth? 2011-03-03T15:22:49Z “War and Peace,” Tolstoy’s great novel of Napoleon’s campaign in Russia, haunts this book. A New Look at Civilian Life in Europe Under Hitler 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Guided by Mr. Tolstoy, a committee of leading cultural figures and state officials ultimately produced an 18-page policy document that defines culture broadly, saying it is as valuable to Russia as its natural resources. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Depending on one’s point of view, he was either a crackpot or the American Tolstoy, who had turned silence itself into his most eloquent work of art. 2010-01-29T13:57:00Z In my room later, just before going to bed, I suddenly think about the tacky little dog paperweight on Tolstoy's desk, and well up, for some reason. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z I mention my idea of an Anglophone and a Russian Tolstoy and he wrinkles his nose dismissively. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z Cora was taken with the deep boxlike black couch where Tolstoy and most of his 13 children had been born. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Shostakovich’s countryman Tchaikovsky set his “Don Juan’s Serenade” to a Spain-inspired poem by Tolstoy. Review: New York Festival of Song’s ‘Letters From Spain,’ Some by Russians and Germans 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Tolstoy College was housed in trailers, and a typical classroom consisted of a couch and a few chairs. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Chekhov and Tolstoy actually liked each other pretty well. Review: Chekhov and Tolstoy Reunited in ‘Love Stories’ 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z According to Tolstoy, the purpose of art is to transfer feeling from one person’s heart to another person’s heart. ‘How Literature Saved My Life’: big questions on truth, fiction and the information stream 2013-02-07T21:51:39Z These include Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, who mailed Gandhi a treatise on civil disobedience by the American author Henry David Thoreau. Houston art exhibit showcases Gandhi and history of nonviolence 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Tolstoy may have explained the difference between happy and unhappy families: The first are all alike; the second are unhappy in their own way. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The monument to Tolstoy in the courtyard of this museum was never destroyed. 2009-12-29T13:04:00Z Signifying our shared essence, it hints at the extent to which Tolstoy believed we are all connected. Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” can inspire those who fear Trump’s America 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Combat experiences are like Tolstoy’s unhappy families: no two are alike, which may be why they often make for great novels, as Tolstoy also knew. Books of The Times: On a Fool?s Mission in a Dying Colonial World 2011-06-29T22:32:48Z In War and Peace, the most convincing and interesting characters are those Tolstoy made up, not the historical figures he introduces. Author, author: Antony Beevor on faction 2011-02-19T00:05:34Z Gandhi left his wife to live at Kallenbach’s house in Johannesburg for a period, and Kallenbach donated to Gandhi the 1,100 acres that became their communal Tolstoy Farm in 1910. Books of The Times: Appreciating Gandhi Through His Human Side 2011-03-29T19:55:27Z Amid this small world, there are moments of comedy, dark sentiments, invocations of Tolstoy and a generous attitude toward human frailties. | 'Anton Chekhov?s The Duel': Fiona Glascott in Dover Kosashvili?s Adaptation 2010-04-27T21:31:00Z Curious, I followed “Foregone” with a rereading of the Tolstoy, untouched on my shelves for decades. Landing in California, Remembering Tolstoy and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Exploring Banks’s thematic and structural plays on Tolstoy may delight others as it did me. Landing in California, Remembering Tolstoy and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z He has a cheerful sunburned face and is not as tall as his famous ancestor, who was over 6ft, but he has the Tolstoy nose. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z So come, and let us praise the Nobel committee for its honorific omission, this majestic absence that joins Philip Roth to Mark Twain, James Joyce and Tolstoy: He has something in common with each. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z He wrote operas based on works by Leo Tolstoy and James Joyce. Larry Coryell, dazzling guitarist who brought rock energy to jazz, dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z After our visit Thomas said, “Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky were on different paths to the same destination.” Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z He was nominated for an Oscar only once before, for playing Leo Tolstoy in the 2009 film “The Last Station,” but the rigmarole of awards season still surprises him. Carpetbagger Blog: Take Christopher Plummer's Advice 2011-12-22T16:47:18Z The film, based on Tolstoy's epic novel, had an astronomical budget of $6 million. Cinecitt?: Celebrating 75 Years of the Venerable Italian Studios 2012-04-27T10:45:01Z Coming out of Italian neorealism and the French new wave, adapting works by Tolstoy and Pirandello and much influenced by Brecht, they emerged in the late 60s. Caesar Must Die – review 2013-03-03T00:07:05Z With attentive and intelligent sympathy, Markovits digs beneath Tolstoy’s dictum about happy families to raise the question, What is family happiness? Home for the Holidays, for Better or Worse 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Seven essays on stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol; adapted from a class Saunders teaches at Syracuse University. New & Noteworthy, From Russian Satire to the Comet Apocalypse 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z The book lives in the world, in the busy, contingent present tense of mid-19th-century Imperial Russia, which contained everything Tolstoy knew. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z Tolstoy himself served in the Crimean War, and became convinced that war was an exercise in which the ruling classes pitted “brother against brother.” The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z And this is no less true of Jane Austen, left, and George Eliot than it is of Tolstoy and Dickens. Orange Prize: Women authors can lighten up?and still be taken seriously 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z In the lobby of the hotel an entire wall is covered by a family tree of Tolstoy's hundreds of descendants, scattered across the world, in Sweden, Britain, France, the US and Italy. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z The array of characters is rather like a Tolstoy novel filtered through a 1980s American prime-time soap. Review: ‘The Duelist’ Is a Good Shot. A Very Good Shot. 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z She also has a longstanding connection to Machover: Her first leading role came in his 1999 opera “Resurrection,” based on a novella by Tolstoy. Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z This rich, sprawling film bears out the words in the unascribed epigraph that prefaces the film: “There could be a novel by Tolstoy in everyone’s life.” Review: With ‘One Cut, One Life,’ Ed Pincus and Lucia Small Document His Illness 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z He received his first Academy Award nomination in 2009, as supporting actor, for playing Leo Tolstoy in “The Last Station.” The Carpetbagger: Christopher Plummer Gets Oscar Buzz 2011-12-21T22:58:47Z "Why keep trying to do, badly, what Tolstoy already did well a hundred years ago?" David L. Ulin's best books of 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z It means that outside my circle of friends Tolstoy College is where I feel most total. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z As a teenager, he said, he read Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” in a day and Marcel Proust’s monumental “Remembrance of Things Past” in a week. Robert Gottlieb, Eminent Editor From le Carré to Clinton, Dies at 92 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z In 1959, the literary critic George Steiner published a book called “Tolstoy or Dostoevsky.” Knausgaard or Ferrante? 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z There was a rumor, among professors who came on board later, that the founders of Tolstoy College originally wanted to name their school after Leon Czolgosz, the Polish-American anarchist who assassinated President William McKinley. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Farmiga: You know, Norma is… The character has got Tolstoy’s ego and Dostoyevsky’s torment, and so it requires a lot of emotional endurance. Tough scenes, rocky starts: Six TV drama actors dish 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z In Tolstoy’s novels, “there are no characters who are complete villains,” his great-great-grandson said. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z A: I was an English major, so I read Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn and Bulgakov. Q&A: Jon Hamm on his other TV role 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z They look great, and it is much easier to show off that you are reading Tolstoy in the original with a paperback than it is on an e-reader. Liked the book? Try the app 2010-07-02T23:05:00Z I enjoyed the discussion, but Tolstoy is my man. Letters to the Editor 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z I was an English major, so I read Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn and Bulgakov. Jon Hamm mines Russian lit in darkly comic 'Young Doctor's Notebook' 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z The difficulties Dano faced during the filming of War And Peace were less burdensome, and revolved around trying to figuring out Tolstoy’s deeper meaning. Paul Dano on acting, love and embarrassing parents: 'They have way too many pictures of me' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z “Thousands of us published and wrote in an effort to teach others, all the while disclaiming and abusing one another,” Tolstoy writes in “A Confession,” recalling his early years as a writer. Life at One of England’s Last Tolstoyan Communes 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z But in “A Couple,” the actress Nathalie Boutefeu, who shares screenplay credit with the director, reads adaptations of writings by Sophia Tolstoy, wife of Leo Tolstoy, to explore a famous marriage. 159 Films, for Every Taste, Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z But all clearly adore each other, despite their ups and downs; happy families, as Tolstoy told us long ago, are all alike. 'The Kids Are All Right': Acting highlights dramedy about gay couple's family 2010-07-15T20:52:00Z “The Great Comet,” adapted from a section of the classic Tolstoy novel “War and Peace,” arrived on Broadway in 2016 after a series of Off Broadway and out-of-town productions, starting at the nonprofit Ars Nova. ‘Great Comet’ Producer Hasn’t Paid Royalties, Composer Says 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Tolstoy wrote War and Peace in one room, which at another time was a child's bedroom; wrote Anna Karenina in another; wrote his later philosophical works in another. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z Planck was also inspired, he told me, by a volume of Tolstoy’s essays on education published by the University of Chicago Press in 1967. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Only when it comes to the truly great writers – Austen, Dickens, Tolstoy, Flaubert – does TV fail, producing pale shadows of the original works. Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Ford Madox Ford is where it belongs ? on TV 2010-07-30T14:48:00Z Over the last few months, we’ve asked 15 couples that question – and, as Tolstoy suggested when he wrote “all happy families are alike”, there were some common themes. Six things we learned from asking couples how they stay together 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Tolstoy, even if he is turning in his grave right now, doesn’t have that option. Badaptations: a brief history of controversial book-to-screen transitions 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z His father, who owned a shirt factory, was keenly interested in literature, and Justin “was brought up on Tolstoy and Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’ and Pepys’s diary,” as he told The Washington Post in 1981. Justin Kaplan, Literary Biographer, Dies at 88 2014-03-04T05:34:11Z And she notes Tolstoy, "who probably had more hair than he actually needed, making a good deal out of baldness in his novels". Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being?Old by Jane Miller 2010-08-29T11:21:00Z With Tolstoy, a biblical descent into baseness, to show how human beings, entangled in sex, death and treachery, really are. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z But I also grew up reading Doris Lessing's Rhodesia novels, and Tolstoy, and Charles Dickens, whom I think is extremely political. Barbara Kingsolver: from witch hunt to winner 2010-06-10T17:36:00Z A youth spent with Dostoyevsky, Flaubert and Tolstoy “doesn’t necessarily make you a comedian,” she said. How Nicole Kidman Learned to Love Playing Lucille Ball 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z In any case, Tolstoy’s epic opened up the world to me as nothing I’ve read or seen before, or since. The Novel That Made Jules Feiffer Ignore His Family on Vacation 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z This is Tolstoy as if retold by the romance novelist Georgette Heyer. Dance Review: Illicit Love and All Its Consequences 2011-07-12T22:55:57Z It’s all well observed and exquisitely acted, yet this “Scenes” seems to have defied Tolstoy by finding an unhappy family that is unhappy in a very familiar way. Review: In ‘Scenes From a Marriage,’ a Couple Unhappy in the Same Way 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z In a recent interview via e-mail, Mr. Lanchester discussed fiction and nonfiction, Dickens and Tolstoy, immigration, the changing behavior of the English, and more. ArtsBeat: Q. & A.: John Lanchester on 'Capital' 2012-06-13T16:28:11Z I am strongly influenced by the narratives of the Bible and by writers such as Kleist and Tolstoy. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak 2013-05-14T14:19:53Z An esteemed film and stage actor, Plummer went most of his 60-year career unacknowledged at the Oscars until earning a supporting-actor nomination two years ago as Leo Tolstoy in "The Last Station." Scorsese's 'Hugo' leads Oscars 11 nominations 2012-01-24T14:07:04Z Tolstoy, being a pacifist, gave them better cover with the administration of the State University of New York at Buffalo, under which the school operated, or so the story goes. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Tolstoy’s novel is, among other things, a book about the value of happiness: often, he thought, we discount it, in favor of other, more exciting feelings, like anticipation, love, and triumph. The Question at the Heart of “The Good Wife” 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Shortly after founding Tolstoy College, Planck left academia to start a farm in rural Virginia, inspired by the “back to the land” movement then gaining momentum. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Born in 1919 to a comfortably middle-class family in Turin, Italy, the young Levi read widely in world literature — Thomas Mann, Aldous Huxley, Darwin, Tolstoy — but early on, he decided to become a chemist. ‘The Complete Works of Primo Levi’: A literary treasury on humanity 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z In other words, prepare for Tolstoy with zombies. Everything You Need to Know Before Season 5 of The Walking Dead 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Tolstoy added that if the project was successful, he hoped to see new anthologies of American and European literature in Russian. Columbia University Press to Publish New Translations of Russian Literature 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, it also reminded me of why I always liked Dostoyevsky a lot better than Tolstoy, so he’s up next. What We’re Reading This Summer 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z When he leans over to the right I see that he is none other than Leo Tolstoy, beard and all. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z “You’ll read much of that in both Tolstoy and Balzac,” she said. dance: Tharp Is Back Where the Air Is Rarefied 2010-03-05T21:17:00Z The letter offered the student’s “personal reasons for being in Tolstoy College.” The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Tolstoy's characters would have been whirling in waltzes. Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z Berlin’s answer was that Tolstoy was a fox who thought he was a hedgehog: He wanted to have a general system, but what he demonstrated instead was the teeming and irreducible complexity of war. A New Look at Civilian Life in Europe Under Hitler 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z All of this leads Pamuk into some interesting re-evaluations of Flaubert, Proust, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Dickens as he explores the oscillations between "naive" and "sentimental" and the search for an equilibrium between these two poles. Deadlines can give life to creative writing 2011-02-28T10:43:22Z Tolstoy banished from within himself the life-giving power of art, moving on to primitive parables and cheap moralizing. The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z I know that Nascar is awesome in the same way I know that cricket and Tolstoy novels and contemporary dance are awesome. Making Pit Stops in Charlotte 2010-10-06T03:30:00Z But his own homilies read less like Tolstoy than like the mock-Russian hilarities in Woody Allen’s “Love and Death.” Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z We do not talk of Tolstoy or Balzac or Hawthorne as “historical novelists” any more than we think of Shakespeare as a historical playwright. For Literary Novelists the Past Is Pressing 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z Kidman credits her ability to live in her character’s emotions to her early study of Russian literature, such as Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, as well as plays by Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant can’t tell you the twists in ‘The Undoing.’ But even they were shocked by the story. 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z He was on American’s campus, for example, in 2012 when a bust of Tolstoy, a gift by a Russian sculptor, was installed between buildings. Has a U.S. College Given Russia Too Friendly a Platform? 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Their first production, a historical epic by Alexei Tolstoy, was a success, largely due to the painstaking research undertaken for the costumes and set. Simon Callow: Stanislavski was racked by self-doubt 2013-03-16T08:00:09Z Tolstoy’s “The Gospel in Brief,” in contrast, emphasizes Jesus’s more austere teachings. Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy walk into a church basement . . . 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Especially when it’s a literary behemoth like Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.” Thandiwe Newton Feeds Her Soul With Critical Race Theory and Cleo Sol 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Tolstoy was raised in a middle-class family in the Moscow region and trained as a journalist. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Directed by Joe Wright, from a screenplay by Tom Stoppard, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy. A wild, whirling 'Anna Karenina' 2012-11-20T00:29:04Z Russians are another big influence, especially Tolstoy, Turgenev and Chekhov. Yiyun Li’s ‘Kinder Than Solitude’ Echoes a Beijing Childhood 2014-02-24T22:58:48Z This same childlike quality is captured in Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina,” as Levin and Kitty are at last about to overcome the obstacles to their loving union. Perspective | Conversation over video is maddening. So take a lesson from literature’s great dialogue writers. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Most people do not have the Tolstoy option. Why I performed 100 consecutive nights of standup comedy 2013-06-21T14:00:03Z He was a popular teacher and wide-ranging scholar, and his expertise extended from Shakespeare to Jane Austen to Russian writers Pushkin and Tolstoy. John Bayley, British literary scholar who wrote a memoir about his wife, author Iris Murdoch, dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z It was a pivotal moment in Russian history, remembered generations later in works like Tchaikovsky’s “1812” Overture and, of course, Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.” Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z “I considered it my duty to participate,” said Mr. Tolstoy in a telephone interview. 2009-12-29T13:04:00Z At the railroad stop, the lover of the downtrodden buys fourth-class tickets so he can be with the peasants, but hours in the drafty, unheated railcar give Tolstoy chills and fever. The Literati: Tolstoy’s Last Chapter 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z “Leo Tolstoy was a Russian officer who defended Russia in the Fourth Bastion in Sevastopol,” he said, speaking through a translator over tea in a cafe near the museum. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Back at the restaurant that evening we drink the health of the teetotal Tolstoy with red wine and show our respect for the great vegetarian by eating chicken Kiev. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z British writer and academic Rosamund Bartlett at the Edinburgh international book festival where she talked about her biography of Leo Tolstoy. Edinburgh international book festival diary 2011-08-19T17:57:03Z His mother, an opera lover who kept volumes of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in their two-room house, encouraged her son’s artistic side. Günter Grass, German author and Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The spirit of the novelist’s former home “is love,” Mr. Tolstoy reflected. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z At one point, Tolstoy compares himself with one of “three Jonahs in a whale’s belly.” The sparks fly when Tolstoy, Jefferson and Dickens meet in the afterlife 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Tolstoy left the world in an existential panic, saying: "One must speak out from the top of Golgotha and affirm the truth by suffering and, better yet, by death." John Tavener: 'The days of seven-hour pieces are gone' 2013-07-01T18:00:01Z Leo Tolstoy's life was not as tragic as his work. Forget the Jane Austen romantic comedy: These authors would make way better rom-coms 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z As conceived by Tolstoy, Pozdynyshev is an obsessive self-lacerating polemicist whose account of his deteriorating relationship with his wife becomes a galloping tract against the very act of sex. Theater Review: ?The Kreutzer Sonata,? Based on Tolstoy, at La MaMa 2012-03-12T02:00:00Z “Of course, as a descendant of the Russian officer Leo Tolstoy, I cannot have any other attitude toward that,” he added. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Slowly, from comic books and SF and swords and sorcery, my reading interests stretched out in my late teens to encompass Hemingway and Tolstoy and Márquez. Mohsin Hamid on his enduring love of the second-person narrative 2013-03-22T07:00:02Z She was on a tight schedule promoting her star turn in the director Joe Wright’s film adaptation of that Tolstoy novel, and there was little time to waste. For the Oscars, Vying for One Best-Actress Slot 2012-12-12T23:38:51Z By the end of Tolstoy’s life, the couple’s bedroom had been moved into a sort of foyer between the dining room and nursery. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z A writer, it has been observed by practitioners as great as Tolstoy and Chekhov, can invent anything but human nature. Steve Martin's 'Meteor Shower' plunges into the absurd at the Old Globe 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z I wonder if American and British high school syllabuses should include, besides Shakespeare and Steinbeck, translations into English of works by Homer, Tolstoy, Cervantes and other towering figures of world literature. Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z As in the modernist novels of Woolf and Tolstoy cited in passing throughout, the true action of Taylor’s novel exists beneath the surface, buried in subterranean spaces. Jeremy O. Harris: Brandon Taylor ‘Subjugates Us With the Deft Hand of a Dom’ 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z She just reads Tolstoy, plays old Bessie Smith records and cries. Review: ‘The Liars’ Club,’ by Mary Karr 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z His inability to transfer that to his behavior is fascinating to me, because it’s not just Tolstoy, it’s all of us, in one way or another. Examining the Regrettably Modern Marriage of Leo Tolstoy and Sophia Tolstaya 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Was it Tolstoy with his capacious vision of illicit passion and the comi-tragedy of marriage, both salvation and prison? Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z They were not ordinary classroom discussions – Joyce, Proust, Conrad, Flaubert, Tolstoy: whatever he felt like teaching. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z Don’t want to have to choose between Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, but if I had to, I’d choose Tolstoy because reading Dostoyevsky is a little like voluntarily contracting a fever. How Ursula K. Le Guin Fooled the Poet Robert Hass 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Nancy Harris’s adaptation of Tolstoy’s once shocking novella, in which a man in a train car recalls what drove him to murder his wife, has a cast of three, though only one speaks. Critic?s Notebook: In London Theater, the Past Isn?t Dead, It?s Onstage 2012-02-03T23:49:33Z Vladimir Tolstoy, a great-great-grandson of Leo Tolstoy and an adviser on cultural affairs to President Vladimir V. Putin, called it the “most ambitious project he could imagine under the current circumstances.” Columbia University Press to Publish New Translations of Russian Literature 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z He was taken to Los Angeles by Natalie Wood's mother – a Russian to unnerve Tolstoy – and picked up by Frank Sinatra, who then brought the dog to Marilyn in New York. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z And so Sushenya's mysterious Passion in the forest begins – perhaps that same forest where Tolstoy described the partisans fighting Napoleon's invasion in War and Peace. Cannes 2012: In the Fog – review 2012-05-25T11:04:58Z In high school, Kingsolver took a correspondence course in philosophy, read Hume, Kant and Tolstoy when her peers were making out in cars, and won a piano scholarship to DePauw University in Indiana. An Appalachian Elegy, Hillbillies Not Included 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z While Turkey can be proud of its literary traditions – especially poetry heavily influenced by Persian verse forms – it is nevertheless a nation without its own Tolstoy, Flaubert or Austen. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Having opted for the menu based on Sophia Tolstoy’s recipes, we were served a mushroom soup, rooster, boiled potatoes with dill, strawberry ice cream, and cake. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Edward’s wife, Constance, is still rightly honored as the pioneering translator of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Chekhov. Review | The literary tastemaker who helped bring Joseph Conrad and E.M. Forster to light 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Too long, but ours hadn’t been a relationship as much as it was Tolstoy. Modern Love: When the Toast Is: ?To Your Health? 2010-05-14T21:53:00Z Knausgaard’s version of love is not the same as Tolstoy’s any more than it is Roth’s or Bellow’s. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z “That led me to discovering Jefferson, and a few years later, Dickens, and then finally Tolstoy. And I thought, ‘These three would make a very interesting play.’ ” Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy walk into a church basement . . . 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Tolstoy wrote about the unsettling first movement in his novella “The Kreutzer Sonata,” whose protagonist, after hearing his wife play the piece with her violin teacher, stabs her to death in a jealous rage. The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Most readers, for instance, feel as if they can perfectly describe Anna Karenina, even though Tolstoy gives us little more than gray eyes, thick lashes and curly brown hair. Peter Mendelsund, Book Designer, Debuts as a Writer 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Possibly the greatest novel ever written. Esther Freud's top 10 love stories 2010-04-28T08:15:00Z Uneasy at having cast a pall of uncertainty over a literary masterpiece, I deliver my talk, about Tolstoy as aristocrat. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z I recently dreamt: Dream I: I identify Tolstoy as the driver of a beat-up white van on the expressway. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z After several failed attempts to have the book adapted, Seth personally chose the Welsh screenwriter Andrew Davies for the job, fresh off a successful 2016 BBC adaptation of another historical epic, Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.” ‘A Suitable Boy’ Finally Finds Its Perfect Match: Mira Nair 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z “If the world could write by itself,” Isaac Babel observed, “it would write like Tolstoy.” In the Hands of Janet Malcolm, Journalism Becomes Art 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Good intentions to tackle Tolstoy were, I decided, laughable on this train. On board the Trans-Siberian Railway for a centenary ride 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Now it showcases facsimiles of manuscript pages, photographs of other people on which Tolstoy’s characters were based and other items. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z "If the answer was Balzac, Dickens, Elliot, Tolstoy or Trollope," Ferguson writes, or especially Thomas Mann, "the candidate was almost certain to be employed." 'High Financier': Niall Ferguson on the banker who helped make London a capital of finance 2010-06-23T23:38:00Z The clash of cutlery, on the other hand, occasionally echoes as Tolstoy’s tale of love, corruption and fateful meetings swirls like a feverish dream before us, above us, around us. Theater Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812’ at Kazino 2013-05-17T02:00:12Z In this well-lighted, locked chamber — which turns out to be an aspect of the afterlife — we meet Leo Tolstoy, who is impatient, unyielding and supremely smug about his own moral trajectory. The sparks fly when Tolstoy, Jefferson and Dickens meet in the afterlife 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Back at the cafe, Mr. Tolstoy grew animated in talking about Russian pride. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Beautiful beaches are like the famous Tolstoy quote about happy families: They’re all alike. On Guadeloupe, beautiful beaches — with a backstory 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z It was something of the kind that prompted Tolstoy to write "Strider", his story of a talking horse. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z I spoke with the former professors of Tolstoy College just before student protests at the University of Missouri and Yale made national news. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Tolstoy and his brother repeatedly saved Chechens from this lawlessness,” he said. 2009-12-29T13:04:00Z “All the members of this family, and especially the feminine half, seemed to him as though wrapped in some mysterious poetic veil,” Tolstoy tells us. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z As for Turgenev: He could count Tolstoy, Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant and Henry James — not your usual fanboys — among the most fervent admirers of his urbane and melancholy fiction. Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z I couldn’t have understood much of Tolstoy’s life, though, but that didn’t really matter, the whole point was to disappear into other worlds, other places, other times. Karl Ove Knausgaard: By the Book 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Every unhappy family may be unhappy in its own way, as Tolstoy wrote, but not all of those ways are necessarily interesting. | 'Blood From a Stone': Discord Dished Up at Every Meal 2011-01-13T03:01:31Z It expresses, in calm, painfully beautiful tones, Tolstoy’s epiphany for his noble, awkward Pierre: a moment of grace, hard won and treasured, at seeing a comet streaking across the sky. Ars Nova’s Brilliant Career 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z In his classic novel, Tolstoy depicted Russia's victory as the result of chance and luck and the unbreakable patriotism of the Russian people. 'Russia Against Napoleon': A new book for fans of military history 2010-05-26T23:57:00Z It was through the latter, specifically Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, that he discovered Tolstoy. Bernard Rose: Tolstoy, America and me 2012-12-17T23:11:56Z “Tolstoy is a connecting thread between the Russian and Chechen people,” said Mr. Zagibov. 2009-12-29T13:04:00Z Tolstoy wrote the story slightly more than 50 years after its starting date of 1805, relying on other authors’ memoirs and history books. T Magazine: Small Museums 2014-03-20T22:06:31Z Shishkin says he was influenced by Chekhov's sense of humanity and learned from Tolstoy "not to be afraid of being naive". The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin – review 2013-03-13T15:49:39Z Even though it has plenty of fantasy elements, in many ways it’s more like an epic 19th-century novel with fantasy filigree, often more Tolstoy than Tolkien. George R. R. Martin Wants More ‘Game of Thrones,’ Too 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z In this novella, Tolstoy says—tells us, repeats it, assures us, hammers it into our brains—that life is death. The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z More than a century later, Tolstoy’s sensitive and shrewd depiction of Levin and Kitty’s relationship continues to be one of literature’s best portrayals of marriage. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z At one point, I thought maybe we should use the Tolstoy dialogue but make it a contemporary couple. Examining the Regrettably Modern Marriage of Leo Tolstoy and Sophia Tolstaya 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z “When Western publics think about Russia, Putin wants them to think about Pushkin, Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky,” said Andrew Foxall, a Russia expert at the Henry Jackson Society in London. Oligarchs, as U.S. Arts Patrons, Present a Softer Image of Russia 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Tolstoy, in spite of the fact that he was an aristocrat, a Russian count, was very democratic and open. 2009-12-29T13:04:00Z One was published in “The Bud Collins History of Tennis,” and dated 1896; Tolstoy turned sixty-eight that year. Why Tolstoy Took Up Tennis 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Tolstoy was frightened by music, which moved him to tears: perhaps, like sex, it reminded him of his own weakness. Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Another great success was “Strider,” Mark Rozovsky’s play with music based on a Tolstoy story about a piebald horse that is tormented because of its appearance. Robert Kalfin, Founder of an Adventurous Theater, Dies at 89 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z For Tolstoy, although associated with the broadest of canvases, was also a supremely competent miniaturist, as you'll be able to see from these two novellas. The Death of Ivan Ilyich/The Devil by Leo Tolstoy ? review 2011-07-28T09:00:00Z Charles “Chip” Planck, the founder of Tolstoy College, denies this. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Tolstoy's themes of class division, capitalist amorality and spiritual emptiness resonate with a credit-crunched America; the insistent voice of the car's GPS reminds the two men that "guidance cannot be provided". Bernard Rose: Tolstoy, America and me 2012-12-17T23:11:56Z Advertisement At that gathering, Nabokov himself listed famed Russian authors, asking who did not know the name of such giants as Tolstoy and Chekhov. George Weidenfeld, British Publisher of ‘Lolita’ and London Fixture, Dies at 96 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z That's what 19th century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy produced in this indecent tale about a married woman who begins a torrid affair with a dapper count named Vronsky, becoming pregnant in the process. Five totally immoral books besides 'Fun Home' Duke University students should also skip 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z A 10-hour production of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace will dominate BBC Radio 4's output on New Year's Day. War and Peace to take over Radio 4 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Tolstoy, Gogol and Chekhov believed in many different things, but, most consistently of all, they believed in storytelling and the fine resources of the fiction-maker's art. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, according to Tolstoy, except in mainstream movie comedies where many unhappy families are exactly alike. | 'Peep World': Things Fall Apart When a Family Gets Together 2011-03-24T21:13:04Z He was nominated for his portrayal of Leo Tolstoy in "The Last Station" three years ago. Oscar is better late than never for Christopher Plummer 2012-02-27T04:05:03Z We have read Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina” countless times. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Glowering and barking his words, as he strides around in peasant-style attire, actor Steven Carpenter supplies a droll spoof of Tolstoy. The sparks fly when Tolstoy, Jefferson and Dickens meet in the afterlife 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z He’s made movies as long as 11 hours; his most recent, “The Woman Who Left,” is a 228-minute film inspired by a nine-page short story, Tolstoy’s “God Sees the Truth, but Waits.” Lav Diaz and Pedro Costa: Slow Cinema on the Cutting Edge 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Who are your literary heroes?I've had many: Gogol, Beckett, Maupassant, Heinrich von Kleist, Kafka, Mark Twain, all the Roths I can think of but especially Joseph Roth, and of course Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak: Part Two 2013-05-15T10:31:24Z Even the BBC's own adaptations shy away from works that were not originally written in English: they used to serialise Balzac, Zola, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, both the Dumas, and Stendhal. The sad disappearance of foreign TV 2010-09-01T12:30:00Z He tries to mitigate if not forgive Tolstoy’s unspeakable behavior to his wife. Harold Bloom Is Dead. But His ‘Rage for Reading’ Is Undiminished. 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z While Mr. Tolstoy may agree with the general direction, his approach is more tolerant. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Gandhi chose Tolstoy Farm as the name for his cooperative colony founded in 1910 outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Houston art exhibit showcases Gandhi and history of nonviolence 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z To paraphrase Tolstoy: Happy marriages are all alike; every unhappy marriage is unhappy in its own way. A Kinder, Gentler Portrait of Prince Charles 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z I do also like novelists like Tolstoy who combine strong plots with philosophical or political musings. Sylvia Nasar: By the Book 2012-08-10T14:14:08Z Great reads by Tolstoy and Twain and two popular modern novels by Northwest writers are in the wings for Book-It Repertory Theatre's 2012-13 season. In Book-It's new season: Jamie Ford, Jess Walter, Twain and Tolstoy 2012-05-15T18:43:04Z Cuarón shows, through a hundred little touches, that though their handsomely appointed household is superficially comfortable, the family is, in Tolstoy’s words, unhappy in its own way. Why Roma should win the best picture Oscar 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Tolstoy interrupts her frenzied search and a violent confrontation erupts, after which 82-year-old Leo flees his home with his doctor. The Literati: Tolstoy’s Last Chapter 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z During my stay in Moscow, I visited the homes of two giants of Russian literature: Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy. Russia’s Literary Icons, Explored on a Budget 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z He is not primarily an intellectual like Proust or Tolstoy, deeply interested in abstract ideas, but he is much warmer, sensitive and compassionate. Sylvia Nasar: By the Book 2012-08-10T14:14:08Z He returns in the end to Tolstoy and his influential portrait of war. A New Look at Civilian Life in Europe Under Hitler 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Mendelsund, who has designed striking covers for departed literary giants like Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Joyce, dreads working with picky writers who demand a particular font, color, image or visual theme. Peter Mendelsund, Book Designer, Debuts as a Writer 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z When she was finished, Cora asked her what she thought of Tolstoy. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Leo Tolstoy, who personally experienced the red-white square, couldn’t foresee, nor control, what happened. The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z In many ways, “War and Peace” was meant as a corrective to popular histories and fictions about war that glorified battle; Tolstoy instead showed war as disorienting, chaotic and humbling. Leo Tolstoy vs. the Police 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Many of the 100,000 books were donated by immigrants: classics by Tolstoy, Communist Party records from the 1930s, stories translated to Russian from Yiddish, volumes of Russian Jewish newspapers, and mementos. Explorer: Israel With a Russian Accent (and Pork) 2010-02-27T04:22:00Z Tolstoy quickly gained a cult-like following both at home and abroad—which he somewhat disapproved of, on the grounds that to follow a human leader was to ignore one’s own conscience. Life at One of England’s Last Tolstoyan Communes 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Along with the Tolstoy drama "The Last Station," "Precious" led the field with five nominations each. "Precious" takes top prizes at indie film awards 2010-03-06T06:52:00Z Tolstoy said that music was the shorthand of emotion, but it used to be my longhand. Music has died now I've thrown away my CDs and only listen on my laptop 2013-06-04T19:00:02Z We may admire the works of Tolstoy, Céline, Picasso and Pollock and overlook their failings as people. Art Review: Spiritual Seeker With a Taste For the Satirical 2010-12-23T22:15:17Z Mr. Zagibov died last year, but Mr. Tolstoy continues the friendship with his son, Salavdi, who succeeded his father as director and speaks passionately of Tolstoy’s importance for Chechens. 2009-12-29T13:04:00Z You’d think, from all this, that Tolstoy despised tennis and all he thought it represented. Why Tolstoy Took Up Tennis 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The estate loses its visitors quickly at the end of the day, and by the time I get to the place where Tolstoy is buried, there's nobody around. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z True though Zadie Smith's observation is, there were no cultural expectations for Dickens or Tolstoy that they would raise their children or spend any time with them. Why I performed 100 consecutive nights of standup comedy 2013-06-21T14:00:03Z I ask the teacher what he thinks about Tolstoy's relationship to the church, which excommunicated him after he denounced their bureaucracy, rituals and avarice. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z The adaptation from Tolstoy is by Tom Stoppard. More Alamo, and an "Anna Karenina" update 2011-06-08T16:47:05Z When they take a break from their hike, Hemingway pulls out a book—Tolstoy’s “Sevastopol”—and then muses about Tolstoy’s depiction of war and the importance of war as a subject of fiction overall. Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z "This novel has been launched on a tsunami of hype," began the Sunday Times's , who also spotted that it "nudges you to note affinities with Tolstoy". Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z Cater-cornered was the room of his valet, whose job was to take Tolstoy’s wife and children to balls, since Tolstoy refused to go. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Planck taught a course called “Political Lives: Leo Tolstoy,” which exposed students to both the Russian’s literary works and his essays on nonviolent resistance. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Tolstoy was after this realization, too, and it took him 1,000 pages. Screams. Tears. Meltdowns. New Picture Books Let Bad Behavior Fly, With Just a Bit of Advice 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy and, to keep them on their toes, Grace Paley. Why Gish Jen Hasn’t Read One of the Most Acclaimed Books of 2019 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z In his play, Carter imagines that Jefferson, Tolstoy and Dickens all ended up in an pre-afterlife holding room resembling a seminary class from hell. Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy walk into a church basement . . . 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z In his later years, Tolstoy refused on principle to read anything Sofiya wrote. Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z It's like, 'I'm not Tolstoy but I can spin a tale.' Denise Mina steals Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel award 2013-07-19T15:27:49Z He had been reading Tolstoy’s work, and reading about him – he told me things I didn’t know. Christopher Plummer remembered: 'It was a privilege to stand so close to greatness' 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Malloy doesn’t appear to mind—perhaps because the whole turn of events seems a comic misfortune worthy of Tolstoy’s bumbling hero. The Musical Eccentric Who Turned Tolstoy’s Pierre Into Every Seeker 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z In an afterword written in response to many letters asking him to explain the meaning of the novella, Tolstoy confirmed that he shared Pozdnyshev’s opinions. Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Tolstoy had such a vast comprehension of human behavior. Examining the Regrettably Modern Marriage of Leo Tolstoy and Sophia Tolstaya 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Parini is a fine writer who refuses to be confined to any particular genre — poetry, fiction, criticism, biography — even mixing them, for example, with fictionalized accounts of Herman Melville and Leo Tolstoy. Jay Parini on the complexities and contradictions of Jesus 2014-01-15T22:18:32Z It’s not that Tolstoy pretends that the system was other than what it was. What Do We Love About “War and Peace”? 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z “There is no happiness in life,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said, quoting Tolstoy, after the recent presidential summit in Geneva. Analysis | At the Met, beautiful paintings that won’t love you back 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z “If Russian literature appears and is read then maybe it will help people understand the way we think,” Mr. Tolstoy said after the conference. Columbia University Press to Publish New Translations of Russian Literature 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z “Tolstoy was Christian, but it feels as if there’s something almost Buddhist at work,” Dano says, gamely. Paul Dano on acting, love and embarrassing parents: 'They have way too many pictures of me' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Around 1877, Tolstoy becomes determined to follow the doctrines of Jesus. The Literati: Tolstoy’s Last Chapter 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Carter took inspiration from the fact that Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy all created versions of Christian scripture that reflected their own theological and worldly views. The sparks fly when Tolstoy, Jefferson and Dickens meet in the afterlife 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Ask an Iranian who a great writer is and they'll say Tolstoy, ask them to name a great composer and they'll say Beethoven. Mahan Esfahani: Why I'm proud to take part in the Proms 2012-07-20T14:06:00Z It's ideal for people who are are looking for the scope and breadth of Tolstoy, or Chekhov, Edward P Jones or even Steinbeck. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z The funniest in person but rather boring on the page is, hands down, Leo Tolstoy. Joan Rivers: By the Book 2012-07-19T14:00:00Z Tolstoy read five hours a day, underlining, folding corners and grading. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Leo Tolstoy was nervous about getting the details right when he penned “War and Peace”; George Eliot dismissed the whole genre as “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists.” Review | How Queen Elizabeth’s wedding dress diverted war-torn England 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z In recent years, Mr. Lappen said, he had completed two operas based on works by Tolstoy, and had been working on another, inspired by James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” at his death. Larry Coryell, Guitarist of Fusion Before It Had a Name, Dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z After their arrival in the United States they banned English from their household and fed the newly renamed Gary a diet of Chekhov, Turgenev and Tolstoy in the original Russian. A Wayward Son Checks in With Mother Russia 2010-10-24T23:06:00Z In “Tolstoy and the Purple Chair,” she describes how she and other family members would bring books to Anne-Marie’s sickbed. Nina Sankovitch, Allaying Grief Through Books 2011-08-12T20:52:47Z Tolstoy’s inclusion of expository commentary at the end of some chapters of “War and Peace” is mirrored by Rooney at the beginning of most of hers. Sally Rooney’s Riposte, Ralph Nader’s Candidacy and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Before Urbinati started dressing actors, she wanted to be a writer — a Hemingway/Tolstoy, serious kind of writer. ‘You have no idea how much better I could make you look’: The woman who turns Hollywood men into style icons 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The years of struggle and conflict that characterised the Tolstoys’ long, fraught journey dissolved, leaving young lovers drunk on the possibility of each other. Christopher Plummer remembered: 'It was a privilege to stand so close to greatness' 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z There are also a working farm and orchards, and Tolstoy’s grave is in a wooded glen that the writer associated with his beloved older brother, who died young. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The Tolstoy museum project took off after Mr. Tolstoy wrote to the Chechen president asking for his support. 2009-12-29T13:04:00Z The tempestuous love story of Leo and Sofya Tolstoy was the very heart of the film. Christopher Plummer remembered: 'It was a privilege to stand so close to greatness' 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z The externals, like the wealth – I don’t know Tolstoy thought those were the answers. Paul Dano on acting, love and embarrassing parents: 'They have way too many pictures of me' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z You’ve written at length about Russian writers—Tolstoy, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Babel, and others. This Week in Fiction: Elif Batuman on Writing Fiction vs. Nonfiction 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Early on, Mr. Díaz said he envied writers of earlier centuries, like Tolstoy and Flaubert, because for them divorce was a far more dramatic plot point. ArtsBeat: Friends Remember David Foster Wallace at New Yorker Festival 2012-10-08T20:56:32Z His descendant Mr. Tolstoy first visited Starogladovskaya, about 80 kilometers, or 50 miles, from the Chechen capital of Grozny in 2000. 2009-12-29T13:04:00Z “Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was absolutely against Russian military policy in the Caucasus,” said Mr. Zagibov in a telephone interview, using the author’s full Russian name. 2009-12-29T13:04:00Z The scene is as moving as anything in Tolstoy. No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z I was able to locate a slim volume titled “How Count Tolstoy Lives and Works,” written by P. A. Sergeenko, a journalist and contemporary of Tolstoy’s, and published in English translation in 1899. Why Tolstoy Took Up Tennis 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z What would Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, so strongly influenced by Dickens, have made with the basic premise of A Christmas Carol? Bah, humbug! The many faces of Scrooge 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z What follows — as an amicable split becomes a shattering rupture, lurching from awkwardness to rage in search of a new equilibrium — is a reversal of Tolstoy’s sturdy observation about happy and unhappy families. ‘Marriage Story’ Review: Dance Me to the End of Love 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Tolstoy and Clausewitz appreciated that bad things can come from good intentions and vice versa. When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Tolstoy treats this kind of complementary marriage as a given: what a sensitive but also sensible man like Levin would naturally seek. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The acclaimed writer pairs these essays with short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol to offer a master class in the mechanics of fiction. New in Paperback: Helen Oyeyemi and George Saunders 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Nabokov recited the names of Tolstoy, Chekhov and other Russian writers, then asked, “But who still remembers the name of a single police chief or censor from St. Petersburg?” He fought a duel, fled Nazi Austria and became Britain’s leading publisher 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The new version is by British playwright Helen Edmundson, who previously adapted the Tolstoy novels Anna Karenina and War and Peace for the stage. Knightley to make Broadway debut 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Photograph: Shane Reid A new adaptation of Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata was an early highlight of this year's Adelaide Festival programme. The Kreutzer Sonata: did the critics play fair? 2013-03-04T06:16:01Z Tolstoy portrayed complex people — courageous and fallible, petty and profound, rebellious and conventional. Love’s tragedies, triumphs in Book-It’s ‘Anna Karenina’ | Theater review 2013-02-14T02:15:42Z “Peterloo” has the sweep of Tolstoy and the bustle of Dickens. ‘Peterloo’ Review: Political Violence of the Past Mirrors the Present 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Women authors had long taken aim at precisely the kind of marriage Tolstoy depicted. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Based on a ballad by Nikolai Tolstoy and not performed until two years after Rachmaninov's death, it's a perfectly competent piece of orchestral writing. Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 etc - review 2011-07-28T22:00:04Z Amid all this tumult, there is—as there is not in the contemporary biographies of Tolstoy I got my hands on—the tennis. Why Tolstoy Took Up Tennis 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z It's a new adaptation of a Tolstoy novella. What I'm thinking about … taking over in The Kreutzer Sonata at two days' notice 2013-03-01T00:07:00Z We are shown around the house, which is large but not grand, and must have seemed crowded when the Tolstoy brood was at its height. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z This minimalist, fascinatingly acted film is the latest in the ongoing "Tolstoy project" of director Bernard Rose. Boxing Day – review 2012-12-20T21:40:01Z Davies, who is currently adapting Tolstoy's War and Peace for the BBC, will attend Friday's awards lunch at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. TV critics honour writer Davies 2014-03-26T11:15:08Z But passion, as writers from Sappho to Tolstoy have reminded us, is always as much about its own fiery existence as its object. Theater Review: ‘Bridges of Madison County’ Brings Iowa to Broadway 2014-02-21T03:00:02Z I had read Tolstoy before, but I didn’t know anything about his domestic life. Examining the Regrettably Modern Marriage of Leo Tolstoy and Sophia Tolstaya 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z As he did with Ivansxtc, Rose transposes a Tolstoy short story to modern day America, though this is a conspicuously lower-key affair. This week's new films 2012-12-22T00:05:00Z They included one based on a "rather terrifying" short story by Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, in which the central character seeks redemption as he stares into the void of death. Obituary: Sir John Tavener 2013-11-12T17:29:21Z “Winter Sleep” was inspired by the short stories of Chekhov, as well as works by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Cannes Film Festival: From Writers' Fights Came 'Winter Sleep' 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z And Tolstoy – well, no matter how much time Mr. Snowden has, he may not have enough time for Tolstoy. ArtsBeat: Russia for Beginners: A Literary Course for Edward Snowden 2013-07-25T23:16:45Z In 1915, one critic wrote, “He was born to laughter as much as Edison was born to invention, and Tolstoy was born to world literature.” Charlie Chaplin's Scandalous Life and Boundless Artistry 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Although I admired Dostoevsky more than Tolstoy, my first story writing impulses came after reading Tolstoy novellas. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak: Part Two 2013-05-15T10:31:24Z Flaubert created his Emma, Tolstoy made his Anna, and now we have Grossman's Ora – as fully alive, as fully embodied, as any character in recent fiction. 'The most gifted writer I've ever read': outblurb the Grossman fans 2010-07-06T09:25:00Z Some of my favorites are Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” Flaubert’s “Salammbô,” James’s “The Golden Bowl” and Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury.” Amy Chua: By the Book 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The Tolstoys moved there after his spiritual awakening. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Outside is a chinning bar dating to Tolstoy’s day. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Most enthusiastic was the London Evening Standard's Sarah Sands, who found in Franzen's "almost perfectly written" family saga "an emotional grandeur worthy of Tolstoy", and "the best portrait of a marriage I can remember reading". Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z This week, we’re bringing you pieces on Tolstoy and five other great Russian writers. Sunday Reading: Russian Literature 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z They remind me of the famous Tolstoy observation that, "All happy families are the same, and all unhappy families are different." Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Before coming to Tolstoy College, Haynie, who died in 2001, worked with a nonprofit that tried to improve the mathematics curricula of black colleges in the South. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The new book emerges from his longtime course on the 19th-century Russian short story — on Chekhov and Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol. George Saunders Conducts a Cheery Class on Fiction’s Possibilities 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z But I couldn’t help wondering why the likely parallel with Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” which leapt to mind on first reading the review, did not invite mention. Landing in California, Remembering Tolstoy and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Tolstoy is a big, gaping hole in my education. Anthony Bourdain: By the Book 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z For 12,150 rubles off season, we were given tours of the churchyard where most of the Tolstoys are buried, the train station he walked to every day and the estate. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Look, it may seem weird to you, sitting at home eating beans on toast and reading Tolstoy in your flat in Cheam, but Hollywood A-listers do things differently. Quarantine divorcees: why Bruce Willis and Demi Moore are isolating together 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Consequently, Belknap probes Tolstoy’s moralistic criticisms of Shakespeare and charts the influence of Gogol on Dostoevsky. ‘Meanwhile, back at the ranch’ and other storytelling tricks explained in ‘Plots’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The director is Michael Hoffman, who filmed 2009 Tolstoy biopic The Last Station and recently unveiled Gambit, a crime caper remake written by the Coen brothers due to arrive next year. Dakota Fanning to play Princess Margaret in Girls' Night Out 2011-02-10T12:11:15Z Simon has memorably said: “Our model when we started wasn’t other television shows. The standard we were looking at was Balzac’s Paris or Dickens’s London, or Tolstoy’s Moscow.” ‘Progress is painfully uneven’: Baltimore, 15 years after The Wire 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z The wealth of individualized supporting characters in Mr. Ratmansky’s finest works is far closer to Tolstoy than this is. Dance Review: Illicit Love and All Its Consequences 2011-07-12T22:55:57Z That Martin read Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” in her dressing room, as she told a reporter, was, Kaufman says, a “publicity driven” claim. Mary Martin — from Weatherford, Tex., to Broadway stardom 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Tolstoy had come to find something broken and ineffectual in the world of the prattling intelligentsia. Life at One of England’s Last Tolstoyan Communes 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z When I was in my teens I liked Russian novels: Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z During a debate about whether it is possible to accept Jesus’s moral teachings while disbelieving in his miracles, Tolstoy gets so exasperated that he attacks Dickens with a fountain pen. The sparks fly when Tolstoy, Jefferson and Dickens meet in the afterlife 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z In the nineteen-eighties, Tolstoy College finally lost its battle with the administration—which had spent nearly a decade attempting to defund the program—and was forced to close its doors amid budget cuts. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z He ended up in St. Petersburg, where he was so popular that Tolstoy would later mention him in “War and Peace.” The Dancer Who Made Beethoven’s Ninth Happen 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z This analysis of the art of writing, conducted through a close analysis of seven classic Russian short stories — by Chekhov and Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol — emerges from a longtime course Saunders teaches at Syracuse University. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z “In training to write, I was drawn to Hemingway, Dos Passos, Flaubert, Tolstoy and the Bible,” he said. Atticus Lish Wins PEN/Faulkner Prize 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Of course, Tolstoy lived and wrote long before the sexual revolution and modern feminism. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z It was Tolstoy who soured Rose's relationship with Hollywood in the first place. Bernard Rose: Tolstoy, America and me 2012-12-17T23:11:56Z TIME: Last we saw you, you were the very reserved queen, and now you're throwing dishes at your husband Tolstoy — isn't your audience going to get whiplash? 2010-01-17T07:15:00Z In Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, characters from Tolstoy’s War and Peace come to life in a Russian cabaret. Natasha, Imelda and the Great Immersion of 2013 2013-05-20T13:00:23Z Tolstoy’s self-castrated Romanian fan nearly wept with disappointment when he visited his idol and found that he lived on a huge estate, surrounded by servants and children. Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z For Tolstoy, history is the "swarm life", determined not by great men but by unseen divine forces. The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim – review 2013-03-20T09:01:01Z If I were a return theatergoer, he would have pushed harder for “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812,” a new musical based on a fragment of Tolstoy’s tome. Never seen a play on Broadway? How a first-timer played the odds and scored cheap tickets. 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z As well as the low-budget, digital treatment, what links these three films is that they all star Huston, and are based on Tolstoy short stories. Bernard Rose: Tolstoy, America and me 2012-12-17T23:11:56Z In his review, Gill said that publishing the book as a classic "doesn't diminish Aristotle or Homer or Tolstoy; it just roundly mocks Morrissey." Morrissey mauling wins Hatchet Job review prize 2014-02-12T00:26:27Z Later, Mr. Vyrypaev said, Praktika presented other plays with curse words after President Vladimir V. Putin said in a meeting with writers that while Tolstoy and Chekhov didn’t need cursing, “You, the writers, know best.” Russian Artists Face a Choice: Censor Themselves, or Else 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z One doesn’t weep because Tolstoy is no longer striding around his Russian estates. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Last year a court in Rostov region officially categorised Tolstoy as an "extremist" for having called the teachings of the Orthodox church "a harmful and treacherous lie". Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z Tolstoy once contended that the most profound truths in literature require the simplicity of folk tales. 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' reminds us of the power of courage in the face of evil 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z And that when I heard someone comparing Grossman with Tolstoy, and his novel with War and Peace, I did not scoff. David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair' 2010-08-28T23:03:00Z Now in control, Chertkov encourages Tolstoy to disown all his copyrights. The Literati: Tolstoy’s Last Chapter 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Since being tapped by Mr. Putin in 2012, Mr. Tolstoy, 52, has emerged as the more conciliatory, highbrow and Western-friendly face of Kremlin cultural policy. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z “Good evening,” Mr. Tolstoy said with a warm smile. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z They dress up as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and offer canned greetings to Soviet citizens. A Russian Writer’s Lessons for Being a Nobody While Being Yourself 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Cora speculated that this black couch was where the Tolstoy children were conceived as well as born. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z And they don’t, like Tolstoy, insist upon sexual inexperience in women—this is undoubtedly progress. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z She likes "Middlemarch" too, and "Wuthering Heights," and says she would be happy if she could acknowledge the influence of Tolstoy in her work. An interview with Iris Murdoch: from the Guardian archive, 1 February 1960 2013-02-01T07:30:00Z ‘I’m not Tolstoy but I can spin a tale’ ... Denise Mina steals Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel award 2013-07-19T15:27:49Z Yet, when he died in 1930, the Guardian compared him to Tolstoy. In praise of ? DH Lawrence 2010-10-17T23:05:00Z He was also devoted to his Russian-born maternal grandfather, who read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev and Chekhov in the back of his candy store. Paul Mazursky, Director Who Captured a Changing America, Dies at 84 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Something tells her that Tolstoy is not a weed. Weeding the Worst Library Books 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z EC: It’s hard to imagine that Tolstoy was thinking about his sales, but he probably was. “Obviously, we all die”: On rejecting the cult of positivity and embracing the joy of darkness 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z And the writer Yiyun Li is hosting a virtual club to discuss Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” — follow along at apublicspace.org. Readers stuck at home need books — and community. Here’s how to access them. 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Tolstoy said he had worked to remove language from a ministry policy draft that was leaked last year stating that “Russia is not Europe.” In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Sarandos went to almost every taping and gave Mr. Macdonald a vintage copy of “War and Peace” because the comic is a Tolstoy fan. Norm Macdonald’s Talk-Show Plan: No Monologue, No Band, No Political Commentary 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z In one of these essays, Ms. Batuman delivers a paper at a Tolstoy conference in Russia. 2010-02-16T22:32:00Z Born in Budapest in 1942, Mr. Nadas is something of a literary superstar in Hungary, one who has earned comparisons to Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann and Marcel Proust. Books of The Times: ?Parallel Stories,? a Novel by Peter Nadas - Review 2011-12-04T21:04:45Z The Mint Theater continues its relationship with the English playwright Miles Malleson, staging two of his adaptations: Chekhov’s story of an artist and Tolstoy’s tale of a peasant couple. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z I had stocked up on notebooks and pens to write a journal of my travels, and Tolstoy was stuffed in my rucksack for some light reading. How the Trans-Siberian railway became the love train 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z As she — and we — watch the building's gruff concierge slowly forming a friendship with a new tenant, Paloma learns a few lessons about life, love and Tolstoy. — M.M. June 5 at SIFF: 'Hipsters,' 'Blessed' and 'Angel at Sea' are highlights 2010-06-04T21:33:00Z A more public literary Christian was Henryk Sienkiewicz, who won a Nobel prize while his contemporaries Tolstoy, Ibsen and Twain were overlooked. Where did all the Christian writers go? 2010-03-31T10:11:00Z Count Tolstoy was “bred” to Uno to make War and Pizza. Style Invitational Week 1438: Nothing but the untruth 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Click to enlarge Thank you for your illuminating monograph on Tolstoy which perfectly reflects my own anti-existentialist interpretation of his character; one that I iterated some years ago, I recall. Building: Letters 1960-1975 by Isaiah Berlin – review 2013-07-07T17:00:00Z Ms. Batuman’s search for something more from literature than “brisk verbs and vivid nouns” led her, swooning but alert, into the arms of the great Russian writers: Tolstoy, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Babel. 2010-02-16T22:32:00Z He offers a raft of ideas for every question he’s asked, then undergirds those answers by quoting from Tolstoy, Rumi and Pixar. Losing Control With Riz Ahmed 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Tolstoy, for example, was always asking himself whether he was doing the right thing with his life. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z Lately, however, Tolstoy and Flaubert have had stiff competition on the self-harm front, thanks to women novelists intent on exploring their female characters’ propensity to act out their unhappiness on their bodies. Heroines of Self-Hate 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Tolstoy College was an educational community based on the anarchist principles espoused, late in his life, by the author of “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina.” The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z I laughed when I read this in an essay on Tolstoy by J.M. Perspective | Great art isn’t always made by good people, but this is getting ridiculous 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z The novelist Yiyun Li is hosting a “War and Peace” book club called Tolstoy Together on the website of the literary magazine A Public Space. Ann Patchett on Why We Need Life-Changing Books Right Now 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z This was and is a visionary nonfiction epic written by an artist in the Russian Orthodox, old-regime tradition of Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z What brought Tolstoy to tennis so late in his life? Why Tolstoy Took Up Tennis 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z It introduces us to Bob Bunting, an infantile loner who escapes, in very literal fashion, into the fictional worlds of Luke Short, Raymond Chandler and Leo Tolstoy. ‘Interior Darkness’ for those who love horror — and even those who don’t 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Turgenev thus preceded Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy as “the best-known Russian writer in the West,” though he championed both of them in France. How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z In the Tolstoys’ 16-room winter house were many objects: books, a chess set, a piano, a tiger skin, a closet of clothes. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z He went on to make Atonement with Knightley; she also takes the title role in his forthcoming adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Portrait of the artist: Joe Wright, film director 2011-08-22T21:33:01Z Mr. Tolstoy improved the quality and range of activities at the museum, adding lectures, a literary prize and Russian-language classes. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z “Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin,” the members of the Korean band Goonamguayeoridingstella said, listing what they knew of Russian culture. East by Far East: Vladivostok Rocks 2013-08-28T22:59:23Z After he came upon Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina,” he recalled, he started reading it after dinner and kept going straight through to breakfast. F. D. Reeve, Poet and Translator, Dies at 84 2013-07-08T02:48:30Z Tolstoy was smart on the subject of the moral fiber of artists. Perspective | Great art isn’t always made by good people, but this is getting ridiculous 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z A handful of authors have similarly defined the periods in which they lived — Dickens, Tolstoy, Balzac, Flaubert — creators of unforgettable characters and the very air they seem to breathe. Perspective | John le Carré didn’t just invent the characters in the foreground of the spy world. He designed the entire set. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Compared to Tolstoy, it lacked “force,” she said. The Radiant Prince Comes to Fifth Avenue 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Puccini wanted to work with him, Proust admired him and Joyce said he was one of the three most talented writers of the 19th century, alongside Kipling and Tolstoy. The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio – Poet, Seducer & Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett – review 2013-02-04T07:00:01Z Didn’t Tolstoy warn us that happy families are all alike? Forgetting Doesn’t Kill You, but It Sure Feels Like It 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Bloom grapples mightily with Tolstoy’s hatred and resentment of Shakespeare — talk about the anxiety of influence! Harold Bloom Is Dead. But His ‘Rage for Reading’ Is Undiminished. 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z The Kreutzer Sonata transposed Tolstoy's study of marital jealousy to modern-day LA. Bernard Rose: Tolstoy, America and me 2012-12-17T23:11:56Z In another letter, Welty admits that she’s never read Tolstoy or Pushkin. ‘Meanwhile There Are Letters’ review: The rich friendship of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z His curriculum included works by Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi and Bayard Rustin, along with King and others. Who is the NAACP's new president, Cornell William Brooks? Those characters, with whom Tolstoy opens his novel, pass for nothing here. Dance Review: Illicit Love and All Its Consequences 2011-07-12T22:55:57Z As in Tolstoy, though she occasionally cheats, she says, with Virginia Woolf. | Olivia Sandelman 2011-03-10T14:01:34Z As in the modernist novels of Woolf and Tolstoy cited throughout, the true action of Taylor’s novel exists beneath the surface. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z “I am too old to receive new truth,” a beleaguered Tolstoy told the would-be medium. Life at One of England’s Last Tolstoyan Communes 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Tolstoy — referring to the scrappy/crazy 19th century version — called Mormonism “the American religion,” and he decidedly did not mean that as a compliment. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z While Russians revere Chekhov, their relationship with Tolstoy, at least publicly, is slightly more complex. Russia’s Literary Icons, Explored on a Budget 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z By 1975, nearly two hundred students were regularly enrolled in Tolstoy College courses. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z I was reminded of “The Kreutzer Sonata,” in which Tolstoy says: “It’s really quite remarkable how complete the illusion is that beauty is the same as goodness.” Bringing ‘Normal People’ to Sexy, Soundtracked Life 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Tolstoy was born into an aristocratic family in Russia in 1828 in Russia, and while he was orphaned young, he was raised in comfort. Forget the Jane Austen romantic comedy: These authors would make way better rom-coms 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Tolstoy was a master of juxtaposition, and his novel oscillates between the ugliness of battle and the blissful ignorance of aristocracy. A Peerless ‘War and Peace’ Film Is Restored to Its Former Glory 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z She quickly becomes aware of Master, “one of those teachers,” just as swiftly as he zeros in on the girl reading Tolstoy alone in a local diner, whose checkered history makes her vulnerable. The #MeToo Movement Gets Its Novel 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The world is a chaotic place—and few writers have grappled with its complexity as well as did Leo Tolstoy, who was born a hundred and ninety years ago today, on September 9, 1828. Sunday Reading: Russian Literature 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Tolstoy was sufficiently concerned to write a reply. What Do We Love About “War and Peace”? 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z This shift of a couple of inches between the Austen and Tolstoy adaptations marks another notch on television’s bedpost of flesh-flashing. Flashing the flesh – a history of TV nudity 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z He shifted approvingly when key points were made, and deflected the negative with airy remarks about Tolstoy or Shakespeare. What a creative writing course taught me 2013-01-18T10:58:24Z I remember rehearsing the scene in which Tolstoy dies. Christopher Plummer remembered: 'It was a privilege to stand so close to greatness' 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z He criticises the chair of the panel, Pavel Basinsky, for his "womanly" new book, Flight from Paradise, about Tolstoy's last days. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z Joe Wright’s bold, lavishly theatrical version of Tolstoy’s novel whirled like a dancer, leaving me breathless. 10 terrific movies of 2012 2012-12-27T20:02:57Z One of them came in the 1956 screen adaptation of Tolstoy's War And Peace, also starring Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda. Herbert Lom, Panther star, dies 2012-09-27T11:55:38Z It's Tolstoy's birthday, and entrance to the estate is free. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z At another point, she writes, “David surely had to have been as great as Tolstoy, his closest peer … in depicting how emotions are displayed on the body.” Sexism and Genius Collide ‘In the Land of Men’ 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Photograph: Bettmann/Keystone Tolstoy's condemnation of Chekhov's plays as "worse than Shakespeare" has been thrown back into the spotlight by a new book that draws on memories of the author from his contemporaries. Tolstoy thought Chekhov 'worse than Shakespeare' 2011-07-11T14:28:32Z They are, we are supposed to feel, happy, as happy as it’s reasonable to expect to be in a heterosexual marriage, given the realities, according to Tolstoy’s world view, of masculine and feminine nature. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The relationships may seem complex when thus briskly sketched, but really there’s no need to crack open Tolstoy’s magnum opus before you attend the show. Theater Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812’ at Kazino 2013-05-17T02:00:12Z Read More Philip French said: In The Fog is a deeply serious, utterly humourless story of social and spiritual conflict of the kind we encounter in the fictions of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. What films have you seen recently? 2013-04-29T14:38:43Z Her ferocious energies were very much like those of a Russian intellectual of the Tolstoy or Chekhov kind: nervous, intense, single-mindedly dedicated to the pursuit of art. Becoming Francine du Plessix Gray 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z It shadowed the whole of his literary reputation, in the same way Saul Bellow’s standing was forever hobbled the moment he asked, “Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?” Review | Even before Twitter, Dale Peck was stirring the pot. He’s at it again with a new book. 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z It’s not that Tolstoy was unfamiliar with suffering. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z I read the Tolstoy short story “Master and Man” for the first time via George Saunders’s analysis in his great book, “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.” Dana Spiotta Loves Coming Across Jokes in Really Old Books 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z On that first reading of Tolstoy’s masterpiece, my twenty-five-year-old self thought, in summary: Loved peace, hated war. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z I asked Planck and others associated with Tolstoy College if they found it contradictory at all to establish an anarchist college that was funded by the state. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Napoleon said Larrey was “the finest man I’ve known,” and Tolstoy has him assessing Prince Andrew’s critical injuries in “War and Peace.” Exhibition Review: Diarists Share Tales ? True or Not ? of Lives Richly Lived 2011-01-21T19:10:36Z "What's great about Tolstoy is that he asks the big questions," says Rose. Bernard Rose: Tolstoy, America and me 2012-12-17T23:11:56Z In the 1870s, Tolstoy’s contemporaries were beginning to claim that with religion on the wane, art should take its place and that artists should take over from priests as moral and spiritual guides. Perspective | Great art isn’t always made by good people, but this is getting ridiculous 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Tolstoy looks at events from a historical distance, exploring the motivations of the destructive invasion – and for Russia’s eventual victory, despite Napoleon’s superior military strength. Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” can inspire those who fear Trump’s America 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z I like the Russians, the Chekhov short stories, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Bruce Springsteen: By the Book 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Tolstoy said he regarded Mr. Rasputin as the best writer of the past half-century. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z I was taught the rudiments of the Cyrillic alphabet by a man with a russet-coloured beard, who looked reassuringly like Leo Tolstoy. My parents sent me to Russia for a month, aged 13 – never again 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Ardent, spirited and attractive, Anna catches the eye of an urbane family friend, Prince Prozorsky, almost twice her age, as was Tolstoy when he married Sophia. ‘Kreutzer Sonata Variations’ Has a Scorned Wife’s Rebuttal 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z He went back to that plan but put it aside to begin an opera based on Leo Tolstoy’s final novel, “Resurrection.” The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Tolstoy is widely admired in Chechnya, where there is even a village named Tolstoy-Yurt. 2009-12-29T13:04:00Z One is to read it as Tolstoy did, as the triumph of patience over hubris and of solidarity over grandiosity. What Do We Love About “War and Peace”? 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Shoes makes the average episode of Sex and the City seem like Tolstoy. Shoes: The Musical ? review 2011-02-17T17:08:29Z Tolstoy’s late views were considered especially dangerous in part because he was not merely calling for reform, but for the abolition of institutions upheld and guided by the use of force. Leo Tolstoy vs. the Police 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Franzen is the nearest we have to a contemporary Tolstoy: flesh-and-blood characters who go through deep changes while remaining true to – or should that be trying to discover? – their essential selves. A serious man 2010-08-14T23:06:00Z Tolstoy’s views, particularly his strong invective against state-sponsored violence, riled authorities who consequently placed the writer under near constant police surveillance. Leo Tolstoy vs. the Police 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Sometimes he seems seriously to be comparing himself to Tolstoy. ‘Amnesia,’ Peter Carey’s New Novel 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z He made clear that he considers himself a man of letters who read Dickens and Tolstoy as a youngster and bought first editions as a young man at bargain prices from booksellers along the Seine. Saint Laurent?s Other Half 2011-05-11T19:13:21Z By the end of its 2 hours and 50 minutes running time, the viewer felt as if he'd intimately come to know Gates and Agee the way readers once believed they personally knew Tolstoy's characters. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z "Not only is today Tolstoy's birthday," he says, "today also happens to be the International Day of Beauty." Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z Mr. Tolstoy seems to be generally respected by the intelligentsia. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z It's fascinating in this film to see Tolstoy and his wife being shot by early paparazzi, which really happened. 2010-01-17T07:15:00Z I was thinking about Stendhal and Balzac and Tolstoy in particular, especially in terms of all the permissions they had that, I came to realize, I didn’t feel I had. ArtsBeat: Q. & A.: John Lanchester on 'Capital' 2012-06-13T16:28:11Z I never did find anything Tolstoy himself wrote about his game, in his diaries or anywhere else. Why Tolstoy Took Up Tennis 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z To paraphrase Leo Tolstoy: All happy novels are alike; each unhappy novel is unhappy in its own way. In "Hausfrau," "Anna Karenina" Goes "Fifty Shades of Grey" 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z The gay-studies curriculum at Tolstoy College partly grew out of an interest in how militarism was underpinned by cultural notions of masculinity. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z If we believe Tolstoy that all happy families are alike and every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, then what does that make Midwestern families? Review: ‘Hotdish’ serves repressed Midwestern emotion with a smile 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” opens Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina. What Makes a Country Happy? It’s Complicated 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Senior lawmaker Pyotr Tolstoy said that by spring, lawmakers would strive to adopt a nationwide ban on abortion in private clinics, where about 20% took place in recent years, according to state statistics. Abortion restrictions in Russia spark outrage as the country takes a conservative turn 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z She names prominent Western writers like Kafka, Tolstoy, Shakespeare and Dante and as major influences in her work. Can Xue: The Chinese author who could win the Nobel prize 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z The ongoing bombardment shattered historic structures including museums, villas and the venerable House of Scientists, situated in a 19th century palace that once belonged to Russia’s aristocratic Tolstoy family. This Ukrainian was famed for playful sculptures. Now his art melds war debris and rage 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Odesa’s past is intertwined with some of Russia’s most revered figures, including Catherine the Great, author Leo Tolstoy and poet Anna Akhmatova. Anger grows in Ukraine’s port city of Odesa after Russian bombardment hits beloved historic sites 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z While Tolstoy’s quote is famous, it is also inaccurate. What Makes a Country Happy? It’s Complicated 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Mirren, a British-born actor, has won both Oscar and Emmy awards for performances ranging from Queen Elizabeth II in “The Queen,” and Sofia Tolstoy in “The Last Station.” Helen Mirren visits Jerusalem for new film ‘Golda,’ says she is inspired by anti-government protests 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z The New York Times described it as a “wildly excessive, flamboyantly sentimental, tear-jerking, thigh-slapping homage to Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy — and the game of baseball.” Great baseball movies and books in honor of MLB All-Star Week 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z Many were fined for war protests, which authorities deem to be discrediting the army -– including those who held up blank pieces of paper or Leo Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace.” Wagner chief walks free after armed revolt. Other Russians defying the Kremlin aren’t so lucky 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Another missile crashed into the House of Scientists, a mansion that once belonged to the Tolstoy family and was transformed into an institution to unite scholars and researchers. Anger grows in Ukraine’s port city of Odesa after Russian bombardment hits beloved historic sites 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z “The West told Russia that all it has the right to do is yield,” Petr Tolstoy, the deputy chairman of the Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, said in an interview. Putin’s Beast That Would Now Devour Him 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Leo Tolstoy played chess; James Joyce played the piano; McCarthy read and talked science. Cormac McCarthy’s Work Is Rooted in Science 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z A blaze destroyed precious family artifacts, including correspondence between his great-great-grandfather, a prominent Doukhobor leader, and the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, an early admirer of the Doukhobors’ pacifism and Christian morality. A Pacifist Sect From Russia Is Shaken by War, and Modernity 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z “The Russians, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, are constantly sold out. And Japanese literature has really had a huge resurgence.” In Fremont, Ophelia’s Books balances 26 years of tradition with bold new plans for the future 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Writing a little later, in 1860, the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy argued that there is more to history than the actions of one person. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “In the Russian literary tradition, the ‘foresight of the writer’ is very important, and Prilepin’s foresight would make Tolstoy and Dostoevsky burn with envy,” Mr. Navalny wrote. Car Bombing Injures Prominent Russian Nationalist Writer, State Media Reports 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z When he was alive, Tolstoy had been more than just some random animal. "Elephants speak in a language that we can't hear": Up close with giants in "Secrets of the Elephant 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Tolstoy devoted royalties from his novel “Resurrection” to help finance the Doukhobors’ transit to Canada, and in 1899, more than 7,500 emigrated to what became Saskatchewan to help farm the Canadian prairies. A Pacifist Sect From Russia Is Shaken by War, and Modernity 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z He, like many other Ukrainian intellectuals, supports the erasing of Russian names, even those of great writers like Leo Tolstoy. Zelensky Signs Law Banning Russian Place Names 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z In his novel War and Peace, the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy argued that there is far more to history than the actions of one person. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Mr. Gershkovich’s lawyers said after the hearing that he was reading Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” and watching Russian TV cooking shows about monastery cuisine, according to the Russian independent news outlet Media Zona. Russian Court Rejects Wall Street Journal Reporter’s Appeal 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z The pachyderm rituals would not have seemed out of place at a human funeral: Some stood in quiet order while observing Tolstoy's remains, and others gently touched his body with their trunks. "Elephants speak in a language that we can't hear": Up close with giants in "Secrets of the Elephant 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z But the Doukhobor way of life has been buffeted by intermarriage, the allure of city life and a younger generation drawn more to TikTok than Tolstoy. A Pacifist Sect From Russia Is Shaken by War, and Modernity 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z Gershkovich had no medical complaints and was getting exercise by walking, she said, adding that he also was watching a cooking show on TV and reading, including Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.” US reporter held by Russia on spying charges denied release 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Whose argument is more convincing, Carlyle’s or Tolstoy’s? World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z According to Gershkovich’s fellow defendant, Tatyana Nozhkina, he is reading Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” borrowed from the prison library, exercising and watching television, specifically culinary programs about the monastery cuisine. Russia rejects U.S. journalist Gershkovich’s appeal of spying arrest 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z I knew Tolstoy for many, many years and filmed with him. "Elephants speak in a language that we can't hear": Up close with giants in "Secrets of the Elephant 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Get out of the way, Dante and Tolstoy! Review | Charles Frazier sets his eyes on the West in a gritty, suspenseful novel 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z He reveres the Tolstoy novel, which he considers a timeless meditation on human foibles. Ballet companies take a page from classic literature and bring it to life 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z The Tolstoy line also takes us to novels themselves, yet another of the subjects here. A shattered family seeks rebirth in Jess Row's magnificent new novel, 'The New Earth' 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Editors, she said, had assigned eight people to comb through 2.3 million words of texts, four times the length of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.” Ex-Minister’s Texts Lift the Veil on U.K. Covid Policy. It Isn’t Pretty. 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Tolstoy could manage the other younger bulls and make sure that they don't do anything troublesome. "Elephants speak in a language that we can't hear": Up close with giants in "Secrets of the Elephant 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Like Tolstoy’s unhappy families, each misidentified fossil comes with its own unhappy story. We Regret the Fossil Error. It Wasn’t the First. 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z |
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