Can Bo Pull Trigger on QB Switch? Oct 28, 2009
Anna Karenina never played football. In this arena, it's just the opposite. (Nebraska Statepaper)
DSC hires chair for new education program Oct 26, 2009
One of the world's greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy, grappled with big questions about life and death in a novella written long after his most famous novels, "War and Peace," and "Anna Karenina.". Stetson University Russian studies professor Michael Denner will discuss Tolstoy's later work tonight in a lecture, "Ivan Ilych is Dead . . . and You Will Be Too: Can We Ever Again Live 'Well and Pleasantly' After Reading Tolstoy?" The title references the novella, "The Death of Ivan Ilych.". (Daytona Beach News Journal -- Local)
Telluride by the Sea 2009: So good, it goes to 11 Sep 10, 2009
"Saturday night begins with "The Last Station," a dramedy about Tolstoy's final months, starring Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy, Paul Giamatti and Mirren."I'm so excited about 'The Last Station,'" Pence said, "my wife and I are engrossed in chapter 35 of 'Anna Karenina. "In addition to Tautou as Coco Chanel and Mirren as Tolstoy's wife, the festival includes showcase roles for Giovanna Mezzogiorno as Mussolini's mistress; Abbie Cornish as Keats' neighbor; and Carey Mulligan, who has been... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Leaves and pages turn in the fall books preview Sep 7, 2009
New translations by husband and wife Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, who also breathed new life into "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina.". A Good Fall: Stories. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Discomfort Food: Change May Make Us Crave More of It Aug 25, 2009
In Anna Karenina, when Konstantin Levin goes home to the countryside from Moscow after his marriage proposal is rebuffed, Levin feels the confusion of his life "gradually clearing up and the shame and dissatisfaction with himself going away.". Many apologies, but Tolstoy appears to have been wrong. (Time.com)
IN MY LIBRARY: CAROL ALT Aug 23, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009 Last Update: 04:40 AM EDT. hide topics THIS WEEK'S HOT TOPICS. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Former reporter publishes her first family drama novel Jun 17, 2009
As a theme-suggesting epigraph to the book she finished writing in November 2007, Riggle relies on the opening line from Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina": "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.". "I'm sure happy families are alike - all two of them!" she says. (Dowagiac News, MI)
Selected Portraits by Ilya Repin May 31, 2009
Repin painted portraits of War and Peace and Anna Karenina author Leo Tolstoy in the late 1880s and early 1890s, when Tolstoy was well-known and revered. Rather than having Tolstoy pose in only a formal manner, Repin showed the true essence of the writer. (Suite101.com)
Literary lullaby Mar 12, 2009
It took me nearly a year to read Anna Karenina ... It took me nearly a year to read Anna Karenina with Oprah's Book Club. (Globe and Mail)
A Serious Single-Mom Sidebar Mar 2, 2009
As Leo Tolstoy said in the opening line of Anna Karenina, All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Circumstances vary, contexts are different, and situations are idiosyncratic, but there are some common denominators in families that fall short, all of which have to do somewhat with a failure of human character. (Townhall.com)
Lust in the dust jackets Feb 14, 2009
Kevin McKidd and Helen McCrory as Count Vronsky and Anna Karenina in the eponymous 2000 miniseries ... In many great love stories it is just the opposite; Anna and Vronsky, (Anna Karenina) ... Poor Emma Bovary runs a close second in the remembrance of adulterers past, although, for a hundred minuscule reasons, no one cares for her the way they do for Anna Karenina. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
