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Author

Gary Saul Morson

Gary Saul Morson is Chair of Slavic Languages & Literature at Northwestern University.

Articles

The lingering stench: airing Stalin’s archives (Features) , March 2009, 10
On Inside the Stalin Archives by Jonathan Brent.

Thugland (Books) , February 2008, 71
On Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia, by Lesley Chamberlain.

Sideshadows: The determination of free will (Features) , May 2005, 17
On the complexities of the human experience.

The art & life of Dostoevsky (Books) , June 2002, 83
A review of Dostoevsky: the mantle of the prophet, 1870-1881 by Joseph Frank.

Isaac Babel's genre of silence (Books) , January 2002, 61
A review of The Complete Works of Isaac Babel

How did Dostoevsky know? (Features) , May 1999, 21
On totalitarianism, evil & intellectuals

"Absolute nonsense"--Gogol's tales (Books) , November 1998, 65
On The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky




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