My copy of the 1963 novel that won Alexander Solzhenitsyn the Nobel Prize is thirty-six years old, and it looks it--not just because it is dog-eared and the pages tinged yellow, but because the jacket copy is thick with Cold War fever. This copy, for example, is "THE COMPLETE, UNEXPURGATED TRANSL...
Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago is a history of the Soviet Russian system of forced labor concentration camps from 1918 to 1956. The preface by Anne Applebaum says it destroyed the prestige of the Soviet Union and the belief that its version of communism, at least, had any moral legitimacy and a...
Cancer Ward … hmmm… Oh, Cancer Ward…. What was I expecting from you? Certainly not a frolicky day in the park… no Maurice Chevalier dance routines. Nope. I can’t say I was duped. Cancer sucks. Hell, I’m not spouting some fresh angle on an old dictum. Just nod and agree, folks. Most of us h...
“They’re OK, thanks.” And I pass them right over to the plotter, Nakapkin. He picks up his measuring device, a metal goniometric rule marked obliquely and accurate to one meter, and sets down the “x” and “y” coordinates for each listening post on the plotting board marked with large blue grid...