Here is the transcript of my lecture on Ayn Rand at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, University of Texas,

This is my response to Gary Morson’s critique of my biography Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success. My letter

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