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Book reviewed: The Meaning of History by Nikolai Berdyaev (originally published in Nov 2022) Russian thinkers do not loom large in the Western imagination. Having missed the Renaissance, Russia was a latecomer to philosophy, and its contribution to it is liable to be perceived as, if not peripheral, then at least derivative. The religious thrust of most
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Book reviewed: In Praise of Older Women by Stephen Vizinczey (originally published in Nov 2022) This is not the kind of novel I’d normally pick up. For one, were it not for the word “novel” on the front, I would have gotten the genre wrong — the title suggests more of a sexual manifesto or a confession
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Book reviewed: All Russians Love Birch Trees by Olga Grjasnowa (originally published in Sept 2022) Rootlessness is one of the defining themes of our age, and Olga Grjasnowa is well positioned to write about it. She was born in 1984 in what was then the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. When the Red Empire imploded, Grjasnowa found herself
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Book reviewed: The Catholic School by Edoardo Albinati (originally published in May 2022) In 1975 two young women were lured into a villa in a deserted seaside resort south of Rome, where, over the next thirty-six hours, they were savagely beaten and raped. The ordeal ended with the murder of one of the victims; the other managed
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(Originally published in Feb 2022) Eduard Limonov died on March 17th, 2020, at age 77. For a larger-than-life exhibitionist, the timing couldn’t have been worse. Coming just six days after the WHO had declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Limonov’s death was completely eclipsed by the global response to the novel respiratory virus. The low-key, banal cause
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The Writings of Scriptor Adorans 