Tag Archives: Anna Karenina

What Anna Karenina Would Say to the GOP

By Robin Bates | Published: October 25, 2013

Perfect advice from Tolstoy for the GOP.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged GOP, Leo Tolstoy, Obamacare | Comments closed

Magnificent Women in the Sick Room

By Robin Bates | Published: August 22, 2013

Tolstoy shows us deathbed vigils can spur us to a deeper engagement with life.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Do Not Go Gentle", "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", death and dying, Dylan Thomas, George Eliot, John Donne, Leo Tolstoy, Middlemarch | Comments closed

Petraeus: Karenina, Oedipus, or Antony?

By Robin Bates | Published: November 15, 2012

The David Petraeus affair–is it 19th century melodrama or high tragedy?

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Antony and Cleopatra, David Petraeus, Leo Tolstoy, Macbeth, Notre Dame de Paris, Othello, Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

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