Tolstoy’s great-great-granddaughter organizes four-day marathon reading of War and Peace
In Russia, yesterday marked the first day of what will be a week-long marathon reading of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Coordinated by Fekla Tolstaya, Tolstoy’s great-great-granddaughter, the event seeks to finish reading… Read more »
A gallery of burning buildings: 10 first paragraphs about The End in Russian literature
10. Here is how it will end: you will be on a train. You will be walking down a street, in St. Petersburg. You will be riding a red horse.… Read more »
Brooklyn Book Festival by the numbers
Melville House has been in attendance at the Brooklyn Book Festival every year of the festival’s existence, and while we wouldn’t call ourselves experts, we do think we might be… Read more »
Much ado about Buffy
The Toronto International Film Festival wrapped up this weekend, and thanks to NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, I heard about a couple literary film adaptations that really seem worth… Read more »