My father, the Jewish Russian writer Grigory Baklanov (born Friedman), met the end of the Second World War in Austria.

Booklisti.com has published my recommendations for five literary biographies. Here is the link: https://booklisti.com/booklist/five-literary-biographies-alexandra-popoff/lxnbm8z

Rich Tenorio, a reporter for Haaretz, sent me these questions and later published an article using some of my answers: https://www.haaretz.com/life/2024-08-…. Here

As Albert Camus aptly observes in the novel The Plague, “There have been as many plagues as wars in history;

In The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera recalls a comment by the Czech historian Milan Hübl that “the first step

“I was seventeen and finishing high school when the war broke out. We had twenty boys and twenty girls in

This spring, one year after my biography Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century came out, I received a letter from

What makes a book influential? I believe it’s a message that can withstand the test of time. Harper Lee’s 1960