Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia and Geneva, Switzerland and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Crime and Punishment; Conrad being reputed to detest Dostoevsky....
SELECTED LETTERS OF REBECCA WEST Edited by Bonnie Kime Scott Yale Univ. 497 pp. $35 Reviewed by Adam Kirsch In her 90 years, Rebecca West seemed to live half a dozen different lives. She first became known, when barely...
Ask anyone here what they know about Estonia, and they'll probably mention the football team that didn't turn up, and that'll be it. Estonia itself has been something of a football over the centuries, kicked back and forth between Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Germany. A...
Democracy: We don't know if last week's shooting of a U.S. analyst was a Russian hit job, but we know critics are being picked off as President Vladimir Putin cleans house ahead of a transition. He is going to go too far.Thirteen journalists have been...
