Author name: Alexandra Popoff

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

In One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Márquez tells how in Macondo three thousand workers are machine-gunned at the behest

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,

I am publishing my answers to questions about my book, “Tolstoy’s False Disciple,” that I have received through social media

Today, authors approach famous writers for a book cover blurb. Few expect honest advice. But over a century ago, when