War and Peace Archives

Take Your Divagations Seriously: Geoff Dyer’s The Last Days of Roger Federer

The Last Days . . . has nothing much to do with tennis or with Roger Federer, who appears sparingly in these pages . . . [nor is it] “intended to be a comprehensive study of last things, or of lastness generally.”

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My Kyiv

It’s funny what ends up feeling like home.

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What to Read When You’re in Russia

Sally McGrane, author of the debut novel Moscow at Midnight, shares a reading list!

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The Rumpus Interview with Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles on recording her new poetry record Aloha/irish trees, the relationship between poetry and comedy, and finding safety in social media.

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Bar Reading

At The Millions, Edward Mullany regimentally tries to read War and Peace. Instead, he has a conversation with a stranger at a bar.

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It’s War and Peace, Charlie Brown

For the Kenyon Review blog, Meg Shevenock writes about how Charlie Brown made her scared of Tolstoy’s classic and how she worked to overcome her fear.

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Million Word Novel

Author Alan Moore, best known for graphic novels like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and V for Vendetta, has just finished the first draft of his second novel, Jerusalem, a manuscript with a million…

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Bringing Tolstoy to the West

More people were reading Tolstoy than any other author in translation at the beginning of the 20th century, but as late as the 1880s, few non-Russians had even heard of…

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What We Become

Péter Nádas’s Parallel Stories illustrates the haphazard, psychological violence of a century of ideology, disruption, and the search for the meaning of personal freedom.

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