Andrei Bely’s novel Petersburg was written amid the great cultural tensions and transformations of pre-Revolutionary Russia. Published in 1913, it is set during the run
There was a period of my misspent youth when I lived a virtually nocturnal existence. One consequence of this was that I consumed vast quantities
The few tales Herman Melville told of the land never lose the whiff of brine. Indeed, the author of Moby-Dick was moulded by the sea. It became
“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.” Those words, accompanied by a sculpture of a man
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