Overview :Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikha... Read More
Overview :In this lively gambol through the history of quotations and quotation books, Gary Saul Morson traces our enduring fascination with the words... Read More
Overview :For decades, the formal peculiarities of War and Peace disturbed Russian and Western critics, who attributed both the anomalous structure an... Read More
Overview :A provocative and inspiring case for a more humanistic economicsEconomists often act as if their methods explain all human behavior. But in ... Read More
Overview :In this important and controversial book, one of our leading literary theorists presents a major philosophical statement about the meaning o... Read More
Overview :In this invigorating new assessment of Anna Karenina, Gary Saul Morson overturns traditional interpretations of the classic novel and shows ... Read More
Overview :This far-ranging study develops Morson's concept of "prosaics," which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel's unique abil... Read More
Overview :A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature--and what can be done to fight it Polarizati... Read More
Overview :An Air Mail Editor's Pick A Spectator Book of the Year "[A] masterly panorama of classic Russian literature and its hinterland of ideas."--... Read More