“Do you think War and Peace would have been as popular if it had been titled ‘War, What is it good for?'” This is a paraphrase of an argument from the classic television show Seinfeld. The characters have a debate and, of course, one of them asks this of a Russian fellow who was a […]
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House of the Dead and Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky
Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky will go down as the book I read on my Kindle while I tried to rock my newborn baby to sleep. Perhaps a weird choice. I recall reading Grimm’s Fairy Tales while holding my first child, though I think I read some of those out loud, perhaps scarring her for life. […]
