Alexander Nazaryan

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workAlexander Nazaryan has written for the New York Times, Village Voice, Salon, The New Republic, and many other publications. He is currently completing a novel, 'Golden Youth,' about Russian organized crime in Brooklyn.

Book Review: The Secret Speech

British novelist Tom Rob Smith plays CSI: Moscow in his new detective novel

The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War

Reagan, long viewed as the consummate Cold Warrior, was hesitant to rush into war, a new book persuasively argues.

"A Russian Diary"

A posthumous memoir from murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya gives readers a glimpse of the dark side of post-Soviet Russia.



The Tipsy Hero

Much of “The Odyssey,” with its endless feasting and fighting, reads like a James Bond escapade with wine bowls instead of martini glasses, but in the classroom lessons on heroic archetypes and dactylic hexameter prevail.



Notes From Underground: Dostoyevsky, adapted exceptionally

In Michael Gardner's excellent adaptation of the groundbreaking novella, the Underground Man is summoned in all his scattered, sweaty psychosis by Robert Honeywell. An unsuccessful civil servant whose sole comfort is his own misery...

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