The Harvard professor’s cool eye on recent American political history – insurrection, media, the fanning of ‘culture wars’, etc.
The American Beast: Essays, 2012-2022
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Having escaped the massacre at Katyn, Czapski was interned and lived to write these essays on some of those who were murdered, as well as pieces on Blok, Soutine, and others. He was the mode... read more
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The great Russian poet became a master of the English language in his long American exile: these essays evoke his youth in post-WW2 Leningrad with memorable portraits of his parents, in whom... read more
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Erudite reflections on the history of the auroch, the Minotaur, the great auk and his own near death during the pandemic.