The complete online text of The Jew 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...

In December 1991, Richard Handler agreed that he would interview David Schneider for Current Anthropology. A few weeks later, a text arrived at the CA office. Although I laughed a lot from the first page, it was only some way into the interview...

IN "PASSOVER and the Passion (Op-ed, April 2), James Carroll suggests that "Christians revise their relationship" to the Passion story that is at the heart of the Easter celebration. Carroll is asking people of conscience to move in precisely the wrong direction. The point,...