Goodnight!, by Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky)

by Fernanda Eberstadt

“I was born under the ‘Stalin-Kirov-Zhdanov-Hitler-Stalin’ constellation,” says Andrei Sinyavsky, one of Russia's greatest living writers, in his new autobiographical…

Picasso: Creator and Destroyer, by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington

by Fernanda Eberstadt

Few books in recent years have provoked so unanimous a critical drubbing as Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington's recent biography of Pablo…

Fear No Evil, by Natan Sharansky

by Fernanda Eberstadt

Of gadflies born to make an alien tyrant's life hell, few have been as high-spirited, or as resilient, as Anatoly…

Responding to the Bible

by Fernanda Eberstadt

The Hebrew Bible, that thunderous, juicy compendium of sacred law, poetry, history, and novella, is supremely a reader's book, a…

The Uses of Exodus

by Fernanda Eberstadt

In the last several years, four significant works on Exodus have been published just in the US. Since two are…

Houses of the Dead

by Fernanda Eberstadt

One of the greatest of the Soviet prison-camp memoirs, Gustav Herling's A World Apart, was published in the United States…

Less Than One, by Joseph Brodsky

by Fernanda Eberstadt

In 1972, Joseph Brodsky, a poet with a prison record (for "parasitism") at home and a high critical reputation abroad,…

The Prince of English Poets

by Fernanda Eberstadt

Few English men of letters have enjoyed greater recognition during their lifetime--or suffered a more degrading post-mortem--than Alexander Pope, author…

Montezuma’s Literary Revenge

by Fernanda Eberstadt

Of those native Mexican artists born after the Revolution, few have addressed themselves more consistently to subjects of national character,…

Reading Primo Levi

by Fernanda Eberstadt

AFTER almost forty years of growing lit- erary renown in his native Italy and in Western Europe, Primo

Out of the Drawer & Into the West

by Fernanda Eberstadt

In the last few years, the recent works of such contemporary Soviet writers as Vassily Aksyonov, Vladimir Maximov, Yevgeny Yevtushenko,…

Shakespeare in the Original

by Fernanda Eberstadt

This year two radically new British editions of Shakespeare have begun to appear in print, one from Oxford University Press…