The Noise of Time / TNT

March 25. Berkeley I saw The Target (Мишень) two nights ago (dir. Alxander Zeldovich, script by Alexander Zeldovich and Vladimir Sorokin...

I am writing a book about a Russian Jewish writer, Isaac Babel, who thought that art could serve as the solid inner core of one’s identity,...

Leon Gerome Ferris. The Mayflower compact. 1899 A stirring passage about bees has been buzzing in my brain since I gleaned it at break...

Twenty years ago in Moscow, especially at night, when the city's daytime roar turned to a steady rumble, I thought I could sense the ear...

Thanks to my friend Tom Luddy, the Director of the Telluride Film Festival, I had a pleasant surprise waiting for me in my mailbox on Sunday...

- To see the newer version , updated in 2018, click here Some time in the late 1990s, I was asked by Encyclopaedia Britannica to produce ...

Please read the earlier post  first. A few days ago I received a request to review an advance copy of  An Invisible Rope: A Portrait of C...

News flashed the other day the death of Russian poet Bella Akhmadulina at the age of seventy-three. Growing up in Moscow, I remember her nam...

These are the quietest days of August. Even close friends do not respond to emails. What a perfect time for a coup d'état, as in 1991, o...