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He was editor of “Canadian Slavonic Papers” and “East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies.” His latest book is “Nikolai Gogol: Ukrainian Writer in the Empire: A Study in Identity.” ...

Gogol’s play seldom goes out of fashion. If there’s a governmental system near you that you don’t like, you’ll be bolstered by this knowing, winking comedy. But the Yale Rep isn’t ...

The eclectic, prolific author wrote more than 90 novels — primarily fantasy and science fiction, but also horror, erotica, mysteries and historical fiction. If you’ve never read her work, here ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East. By Leonard S. Marcus Laurie Halse Anderson returns to the ...

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Four historical books about the Tudor court offer insight into what really happened. In “The Stained Glass Window,” David Levering Lewis delves into his ancestry to create a fuller picture of ...