AYN RAND: WRITING A GOSPEL OF SUCCESS
Major Reviews of Ayn Rand:
Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/07/30/ayn-rand-biography-alexandra-popoff-review/
The Sun
Haaretz
VASILY GROSSMAN AND THE SOVIET CENTURY:
Please listen to VASILY GROSSMAN AND HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE podcast. In the interview I discussed Grossman’s life and writings, focusing on his article “The Hell of Treblinka.” The podcast was released on Jan. 27, 2025: https://pioneerinstitute.org/featured/alexandra-popoff-on-vasily-grossman-holocaust-remembrance/
AWARDS: VASILY GROSSMAN won the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for biography, Saskatchewan Nonfiction Award, became a finalist in the 2019 National Jewish Book Awards, and was long-listed for the 2019 Cundill History Prize:
https://www.cundillprize.com/news/the-longlist-for-the-2019-cundill-history-prize
It has been chosen by the Christian Science Monitor among 5 best biographies of March 2019:
https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2019/0319/5-top-biographies-of-March
Major Reviews of Vasily Grossman:
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/books/review/alexandra-popoff-vasily-grossman-and-the-soviet-century.html
The Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/vasily-grossmans-stalingrad-harsh-and-sublime-11560522634
National Post
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/robert-fulford-a-brave-soviet-dissident-gets-recognition-at-last
Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/content/01eace9c-676f-11e9-a79d-04f350474d62
The Economist
https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/06/08/vasily-grossman-the-greatest-bard-of-the-second-world-war
Reviews of TOLSTOY’S FALSE DISCIPLE:
The New York Times Review of Books:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/books/review/tolstoys-false-disciple-by-alexandra-popoff.html?_r=1
The Wall Street Journal:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-tolstoys-false-disciple-by-alexandra-popoff-1422401750
The Spectator:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/9419502/the-prophet-tolstoy-and-his-dodgy-vicar/
The New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/briefly-noted-815
Midwest Book Review:
http://midwestbookreview.com/mbw/dec_14.htm
Reviews of THE WIVES
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2012/11/17/5719a22a-28f2-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html
The Wall Street Journal’s books editors picked THE WIVES among the best nonfiction books for 2012
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324481204578179532266739440.html
The Wall Street Journal
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444860104577560853915400844
The Washington Times
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/7/book-review-the-wives/
Publishers Weekly.com
Kirkus https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/alexandra-popoff/wives/
Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2012/0730/The-Wives
The Washington Independent Review of Books
http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/the-wives-the-women-behind-russia%E2%80%99s-literary-giants/
Reviews of SOPHIA TOLSTOY
New York Times
Wall Street Journal
OMagazine
Review of Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography by writer David Gilmour, broadcast on January 16, 2011, on The Next Chapter, with Shelagh Rogers’s hosting CBC Radio program. The Sophia Tolstoy review starts at the 38 minute, 30 second mark.
Quill & Quire
Kirkus Review
Vogue.com
Booklist
In Blogs:
Elainezimbel.com/sophia-tolstoy-a-biographyThomasfortenberry.net/?p=9189
Interviews
Interview with Jennifer Grossman about Ayn Rand for The Atlas Society Asks:
Interview with Alessandra Wollner on the Jewish Lives Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jewish-lives-podcast/id1476077177
Interview with Ivan Wise for the Better Known radio podcast:
Interview for the BBC Radio 4 documentary, a series of broadcasts under the title GROSSMAN’S WAR:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000btvz
Radio Interview with Jennifer Eremeeva of New Books:
https://newbooksnetwork.com/alexandra-popoff-vasily-grossman-and-the-soviet-century-yale-up-2019/
The Voice of Russia: Radio Interview and Excerpt from THE WIVES
http://english.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/28742746/213941110/
CBC Sunday Edition, January 2012 Interview (with Michael Enright) starts at 25.09 min.
BBC-TV documentary The Trouble with Tolstoy: At War With Himself starts at 44.54 min.
By Alexandra
Essay: Tablet Magazine
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/elena-rzhevskaya-hitlers-teeth
Essay: Literary Hub
https://lithub.com/vasily-grossman-and-the-plight-of-soviet-jewish-scientists/
Blog Post: Tolstoy’s Disciple and ‘Evil Genius’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexandra-popoff/tolstoys-disciple-and-evi_b_6201998.html
Essay: The Talented Mr. Chertkov: Leo Tolstoy’s False Disciple
http://www.biographile.com/the-talented-mr-chertkov-leo-tolstoys-false-disciple/37688/
Blog Post: Not the Woman You Thought She Was
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexandra-popoff/sophia-tolstoy-not-the-wo_b_576632.html
Essay: Publishers Weekly
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/tip-sheet/article/53396-the-women-behind-the-greatest-works-of-russian-literature.html
Recent Reviews by Alexandra:
Of Nicholas Borodin’s memoir One Man in His Time
Of Masha Karp’s George Orwell and Russia
Profile and Recommended World War II Novels
https://shepherd.com/best-books/about-world-war-2
Of Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich
https://www.wsj.com/articles/last-witnesses-review-the-war-through-the-eyes-of-children-11563549064
Five Best: Alexandra Popoff on Russia and the Soviet Union
https://www.wsj.com/articles/five-best-alexandra-popoff-on-russia-and-the-soviet-union-11557454450
Of The Year of the Comet by Sergei Lebedev
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stalins-ghost-is-in-the-living-room-1487365006
Of Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine by Sophie Pinkham
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-surreal-and-sincere-1480104877
Of Where Bears Roam the Streets by Jeff Parker:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/07/11/where-bears-roam-the-streets-by-jeff-parker-review/
Of Words Will Break Cement by Masha Gessen
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2014/01/24/book-review-words-will-break-cement-by-masha-gessen
Of The Massey Murder by Charlotte Gray
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/charlotte-gray-blends-social-history-and-drama-with-memorable-results/article14443831/
Of Tolstoy: A Russian Life by R. Bartlett The Boston Globe
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2011/11/27/alexandra-popoff-review-tolstoy-russian-life-rosamund-bartlett/gredVwyytWrMefRq6k54YN/story.html
Of Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine by Yang Jisheng
http://bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2012/11/03/review-tombstone-the-great-chinese-famine-yang-jisheng-translated-from-chinese-stacy-mosher-and-guo-jian/yuFFCEmLIxORRuesm3LjXI/story.html
Of The Force of Things by Alexander Stille
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2013/03/02/book-review-the-force-things-marriage-war-and-peace-alexander-stille/U3Nnp4dUMAhkuv0NWJ3UkK/story.html
Of Lina and Serge: The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev by Simon Morrison
http://bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2013/03/23/book-review-lina-and-serge-the-love-and-wars-lina-prokofiev-simon-morrison/BjXRZjJwxhC2J9bmnZZA7N/story.html
Alexandra Popoff on Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography