Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter

An Air Mail Editor’s Pick
A Spectator Book of the Year

“[A] masterly panorama of classic Russian literature and its hinterland of ideas.”—Wall Street Journal

“Wise and authoritative…As the best Russian literature teaches, the emancipation of the human will from all limits and restraints is the path of individual and collective perdition. We should all be grateful to Gary Saul Morson for drawing out that indispensable insight with such lucidity, erudition, and grace.” —Daniel J. Mahoney, New...