Tolstoy

• “Tolstoy is pretty much the opposite of whatever “crackpot” is supposed to mean.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Why Choose?

• “Surely that is the intent and the effect in Tolstoy's description of Kitty caring for her dying brother-in-law in Anna Karenina (read Chapters 16 through 20 of Part V at the link.)”

  The Dishcloth

• “As this suggests, Brief Lives: Leo Tolstoy is not a hagiography as short biographies can tend to be.”

  A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: Brief Lives: Leo Tolstoy by Anthony Briggs » Print

• “” But my favorite work by Leo Tolstoy is the author’s own favorite work, only just published in English, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Selected from the World’s Sacred Texts.”

  Sonny Brewer - An interview with author

• “Great novelists of the past had the inestimable advantage of being able to read their wife's diary (in Tolstoy's case) or conduct an intimate correspondence with a mistress (as with Flaubert).”

  Amanda Craig discusses In A Dark Wood and describes the challenges of writing from a man's point of view

• “While Tolstoy is determined to see his fellow Russians "cast off centuries of oppression," he also becomes the puppet of his ruthless, ardent follower Vladimir Chertkov, played with finesse by Paul Giamatti.”

  Mirren is the power behind Tolstoy biopic 'Last Station'

• “He sees in Tolstoy a man with far more of an artist's sensibility than a movement organizer.”

  Mirren is the power behind Tolstoy biopic 'Last Station'

• “What if in taking up a Denis Johnson novel we just don't think Tolstoy is a particularly apt touchstone in beginning to evaluate it?”

  Book Reviewing

• “Well you're definitely right that to say any one thing about Tolstoy is nuts.”

  Who Cares Who Is John Galt?

• “The author, Nikolai Tolstoy, is the stepson of Patrick O'Brian, so his knowledge is intimate and his attitude sympathetic, but.”

  A Bland and Deadly Courtesy

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