Author name: Alexandra Popoff

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

This Q & A was compiled by the author herself. Q. What prompted you to write Vasily Grossman’s biography? A.

In January 2018 the conservative National Review magazine published a piece The Most Ridiculous PC Moments of 2017 . The comedian and television personality

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The BBC has produced an adaptation of War and Peace featuring scenes of nudity and incest. The adaptation, by Andrew

  Russia has proclaimed 2015 the Year of Literature. Coming from the state where nothing happens without Putin’s personal approval,