War and Peace

Literature's Most Attractive (And Repellent) Leading Men

Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Word & Film, Literature, Leading Men, Jane Eyre, Jane Austen, Books We Love, Hamlet, Twilight, War and Peace, Philip Roth, Persuasion, Video, Books News

By Christine Spines via Word & Film Stephenie Meyer’s decision to produce “Austenland” — a film about a woman so obsessed with the taciturn...

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9 Famous Books You Won't Believe Were Self-Published

Amy Edelman | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Eragon, Leaves of Grass, The Joy of Cooking, The Lace Reader, Self-Publishing, Slidepollajax, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, E. E. Cummings, Remembrance of Things Past, War and Peace, Indie Books, Daemon, Books News
Amy Edelman

Indie (aka self) publishing is hardly a new phenomena. And contrary to some, it is not code word for "not good enough."

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25 Foreign Films Even Subtitle Haters Should See

John Farr | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Yasujiro Ozu, Francois Truffaut, Abbas Kiarostami, Academy Awards, Arthouse, The Lives of Others, Gael Garcia Bernal, Leo Tolstoy, Best Movies by Farr, War and Peace, Akira Kurosawa, Alfonso Cuaron, Marcello Mastroianni, Florian Henckel Con Donnersmarck, Jean Renoir, Wong Kar Wai, Claudia Cardinale, Federico Fellini, Foreign Films, Louis Malle, Pedro Almodovar, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Tati, Fritz Lang, Subtitles, Zhang Yimou, Satyajit Ray, Ulrich Muhe, Werner Herzog, Anna Magnani, Walter Salles, Best Movies on DVD, Jean Gabin, Best Movies, Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, Peter Lorre, Klaus Kinski, Entertainment News
John Farr

Reading subtitles is a lot like riding a bicycle. Practice not only makes perfect, soon enough it's second nature so you don't even notice you're doing it. This particularly holds true when you're watching something great.

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The Stockholm Syndrome Theory Of Long Novels

themillions.com | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, Gravity's Rainbow, Stockholm Syndrome, Dostoevsky, Infinite Jest, War and Peace, Tolstoy, Long Novels, Reading Books, Books News

I used to be the kind of reader who gives short shrift to long novels. I used to take a wan pleasure in telling friends who had returned from a tour o...

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Meet The Graphics Guru Who Is Revolutionizing The Way We See Data

The Information Sage | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Philosophy, Jack Abramoff, Graphic Design, Obama Administration, Earl Devaney, Graphics Guru, War and Peace, Tolstoy, Edward Tufte, Books News

One day in the spring of 2009, Edward Tufte, the statistician and graphic design theorist, took the train from his home in Cheshire, Connecticut, to W...

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Portraits Of Authors In Their Own Words

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: E.E. Cummings, Jorge Luis Borges, Toni Morrison, W.H. Auden, Joyce Carol Oates, Word Portraits, John Sokol, Song of Solomon, Author Drawings, Flannery O?Connor, Charles Baudelaire, Author Portraits, Portraits of Authors, Leo Tolstoy, Walt Whitman, War and Peace, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Books News

People say that the lines in your face are representative of the life you’ve led – as in, love your laugh lines because clearly you’ve had a goo...

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Thinking About War and Peace

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Anna Netrebko, King Vidor, Hitler, Napoleon, War and Peace, Turin, Natasha, Sergei Prokofiev, Valery Gergiev, Norman Rose, Richard Pevear, Rostovs, Metropolitan Opera, Sergei Bondarchuk, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, NBC Opera Theatre, Bulgarian State Opera, Vilcek Foundation, Bolshoi Opera, Kiev, Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Nino Rota, Larissa Volokhonsky, Tolstoy, General Kutuzov, Prague Spring, Andrei Bolkonsky, Moscow, D. W. Griffith, The Crowd, Pierre Bezuhov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Constance Garnett, The Big Parade, Arts News
Norman MacAfee

When I first saw Bondarchuk's "War and Peace," in 1968, in New York, it was presented in two parts and ran six hours. You went in the afternoon, broke for dinner, then came back for the rest. It was stupendous.

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Favorite Rereads: What Do You Come Back To Time And Time Again? (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, 1984, Ernest Hemingway, Books We Love, George Orwell, Homer, Ray Bradbury, Gone With the Wind, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Middlesex, Harry Potter, Slidepollajax, To Kill a Mockingbird, Rereads, Jeffrey Eugenides, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

Author François Mauriac once said, "Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what ...

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War and Peace: Re-Starting Life By Reading Books

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Leo Tolstoy, Purpose, Meaning of Life, War and Peace, Existentialism, Existence, Books, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

How should we live? I look for answers in books. And War and Peace is a source to be mined again and again, a book that will never grow dusty for the re-start it offers.

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WATCH: Denis Leary Says...

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Trailers, Denis Leary, Poll, Suck on This Year Denis Leary, Book Trailer, Jonathan Franzen, Tolstoy, War and Peace, Jonathan Franzen Freedom, Video, Books News

Denis Leary is at it again, this time in his own book trailer for "Suck On This Year." He says people only pretend to read Franzen and other things th...

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Pat Conroy's Memoir

AP | KIM CURTIS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Stephen King, Gone With the Wind, My Reading Life Conroy, My Reading Life, Pat Conroy, War and Peace, Reading, Books News

"My Reading Life" (Doubleday, $25), by Pat Conroy: Best-selling novelist Pat Conroy doesn't just love books, he devours them. He doesn't just visit li...

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Tolstoy Fled In The Middle Of The Night 100 Years Ago Today

Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leo Tolstoy Death, Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy Centennial, Tolstoy Death, Anna Karenina, Slidepollajax, The-Death-of-Ivan-Ilyich, Tolstoy Anna Karenina, The Last Station, Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy War and Peace, Tolstoy, War and Peace, Books News

Today, on October 28, exactly 100 years ago, Leo Tolstoy disappeared in the middle of the night. He was found two days later in a monastery; his flig...

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'I Am A Woman!'

Cathy Porter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Anna Karenina, Russians, Memoir, Leo Tolstory, Translator, War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, Slidepollajax, Translation, Tolstoy, Russian Authors, Great Writers, Sofia Tolstoy, Books News
Cathy Porter

It may be that we would have had none of his great novels without her, but it's her candid account of their 48-year marriage that makes her diaries so compelling.

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Karl Marlantes: My Top 10 War Stories

The Guardian | Karl Marlantes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Stories, Karl Marlantes, The Naked and the Dead, War Poetry, All Quiet on the Western Front, Leo Tolstoy, The Red Badge of Courage, Steven Crane, War and Peace, War Novels, The Iliad, Materhorn, Books News

"It seems to me that a great war book must speak the truth about war; that it is mostly tedious, numbing, confusing, occasionally thrilling, filled wi...

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"War and Peace" Doesn't Have To Be Hard

Salon | Laura Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don Quixote, Tolstoy, The Magic Mountain, Books, Audiobooks, Summer Reading, War and Peace, Reading, Thomas Mann, Books News

Many people swear that, come summer, they'll finally get around to reading a classic work of literature they missed during their student years; "War a...

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Russia Forgets Tolstoy?

Telegraph UK | Andrew Osborn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Last Station, Tolstoy, Moscow, Tolstoy Centenary, Russia, Russian Literature, Kremlin, Anna Karenina Movie, Books, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Books News

Tolstoy is better appreciated in the West, academics claim, even though Western readers discovered classics such as War and Peace a good century after...

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Sophia Tolstoy: Not the Woman You Thought She Was

Alexandra Popoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Biography, Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy, Sophia Tolstoy, Books, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Books News
Alexandra Popoff

Sophia's life has been long misinterpreted, so my goal was to provide accurate information and tell her true story.

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Scott Brown's Victory: 'Maybe It's the Best Thing...'

Barton Kunstler, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Brown, Leadership, Obama's Presidency, Independents, Coakley, Obama, Democratic Party, Massachusetts Senate Race, Health Care, War and Peace, Voter-Disillusionment, Politics News
Barton Kunstler, Ph.D.

Scott Brown is a former Cosmopolitan centerfold model whose political substance is about as thin as the centerfold itself, but that didn't seem to matter to Massachusetts voters.

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Tolstoy's Stories

Richard Pevear | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Pevear, Tolstoy Translations, Russian Literature, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Larissa Volokhonsky, Tolstoy, Books, Translation, Harold Bloom, Translating, Dostoevsky, Books News
Richard Pevear

Tolstoy has been better served by translators than other Russian writers, but there is still the challenge of coming closer to the original, of catching more of its specific stylistic qualities than previous translations have done.

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Obama Should Speak to Schoolkids About Studying

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Television, Reality TV, Obama Speech, The Godfather, Kindle, Intellectual Curiosity, Shalom in the Home, War and Peace, Barack Obama, Machiavelli, Obama School Speech, Politics News
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

The loss of intellectual curiosity, and the death of reading, among our kids is a serious crisis as our children gravitate away from the written word and toward the visual image.

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Be an Ex-President Without Being President First!

Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, White House, Gop, Election Fraud 2004, Al Gore, Newspapers, President Obama, Free World, George W. Bush, Time-Space Continuum, 9/11, Iraq, GOP Shenanigans, War and Peace, Star Trek, John Kerrey, Failing Newspapers, Election Fraud 2000, Iran, First Lady, Former Presidents, Ohio, Iran Election, All the News That's Fit to Print, Rip Van Winkle, President Bush, President Clinton, Bill Clinton, Florida, Michelle Obama, Washington Irving, Ex-Presidents, Election Fraud, Hypnosis, White House Vegetable Garden, Democrats, Bully Pulpit, Barack Obama, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Mainstream Media, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Tolstoy, Ahmadinejad, The Obamas, Iraq War, Republicans, Huffington Post, Comedy News
Dave Astor

There's the Star Trek solution of changing the time-space continuum, but I'm hesitant to recommend that because of the damage it might do to the Obamas' new White House vegetable garden.

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One Man Will Win the Presidency, But Why Does He Want To?

Linda Kulman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hbo, Iran, Al Gore, Wall Street, Iraq War, Energy Crisis, An Inconvenient Truth, Mccain, Obama, Tina Fey, War and Peace, Sarah Palin, Presidential Debates, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Linda Kulman

God bless McCain and Obama -- those politicians with egos the size of California and Texas put together -- is all I have to say. Someone has to have K-P duty.

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