The complete online text of The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev.

Henry James--friend, colleague, and student--said of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev that he was "in a peculiar degree what I may call the novelist's novelist, an artistic influence extraordinarily valuable, and ineradicably established." Turgenev himself was m...

The Russian novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a founder of the Russian realistic novel. He ranks as one of the greatest stylists in the Russian language. The life of Ivan Turgenev is woven like a bright...

Although his most enduring work is the novel Fathers and Sons, Russian realist writer Ivan Turgenev changed the lives of Russian serfs with his 1852 book Zapiski okhotnika, much as American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe did the lives of America's black sl...

Memoirs of a Superfluous Man By Albert Jay Nock, 1943 Several years ago a Latin professor of mine pressed me to read an obscure book with a tantalizing title, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man. As he had never suggested I read anything...

THE PUSH MAN AND OTHER STORIES BY YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI MONTREAL: DRAWN & QUARTERLY. 224 PAGES. $20. In 1969, some thirty-five years before today's graphic novel craze, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, dubbed the "grandfather of Japanese alternative comics," created the narratives now gathered in The Push...