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The Little Man's Revenge

Robert D. Kaplan | Nov 01, 2001
The Secret Agent, published in 1907, is about a shadowy anarchist, Adolf Verloc, who owns a shop selling low-end goods in a grimy, working class district of London.

The Russian Boys and Their Last Poet

Dmitry Shlapentokh | Jun 01, 1996
The recently deceased Joseph Brodsky was a man who overcame formidable obstacles on his way to becoming a great Russian poet and Nobel Laureate...

Commentary

A Brave Russian Life Remembered

Thomas de Waal | Oct 05, 2010
Isaac Babel's wife, Anna Pirozhkova: one life as a mirror of Russian history.

Books & Reviews

Thoroughly Modern Freddy

Michael Howard | Sep 01, 1999
A new biography of a talented and enlightened despot.

Conrad's Nostromo and the Third World

Robert D. Kaplan | Mar 01, 1998
Joseph Conrad's Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, a 1904 novel about Westerners and indigenous inhabitants of an imaginary South American country, skillfully defines and dissects the problems of the Third World.

Thomas Mann and Germany's Demons

Anthony Hartley | Jun 01, 1996
It is understandable that Donald Prater, in his new biography of Mann, should have emphasized the novelist's political evolution, which was so closely associated with the history of Germany.

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