Though a controversial figure in her own country, during the second half of the 1980s Tatyana Tolstaya impressed Western readers as the uncontested premier Russian prosaist of a new era. For many, both her rhetorically exuberant, apolitical stories and h...

The Moscow Writers Union will not accept or tolerate its own Tolstoy. Considered by many critics and writers to be the foremost writer of her generation, a miniaturist whose stories combine the linguistic stardust of Vladimir Nabokov and the emotional wisdom of Anton Chekhov,...

In her short stories, Leo Tolstoy's great grandniece writes of Russians who are "always a little bit crazy" Early in life, Tatyana Tolstaya, the 40-year-old Russian writer whose second collection of short stories, Sleepwalker in a Fog (Fiction Forecasts, Nov. 15), will...

Marie-Noëlle Pierce, a self-assured Franco-American (French father, American mother - she carries both passports) who is a director at the Foundation, ascended the stairs in a scorching red gown with a dramatic train. Her associate from the French office, clad in sensible shoes, stepped on...

SINCE THAT FIRST SCHOOL dance when, like a newborn colt, you staggered over to her side of the gym, you’ve understood that music keeps the rhythm of romance. Back then, you were sure she felt it, too—along with what seemed to be a roll of...