Let’s Not Cancel Tolstoy
Not for the first time, Russian imperialism is casting a shadow over the country’s literature. But the last work of Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murad, provided both a mirror and an indictment.
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Anna Aslanyan
Anna Aslanyan is a journalist and translator. She writes for a number of publications including the Guardian, the TLS and the LRB blog, mainly about literature and arts.
Agitprop vs Agitpop
Sheila Rowbotham’s memoir of the sixties recounts the dream of ‘another type of left’, and what happened to it.
Dialectics in 69
The theatre collectives of the late 1960s tried to harness political turmoil to create an image of utopia, complete with its dark side.