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War and Peace
July 6, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Did you hear that the Chilcot Report is longer than War and Peace?
February 17, 2016
Laura Reston
It took 130 years, but War and Peace just hit the bestseller list for the first time.
February 3, 2016
MagazineAlexander Chee
Children of the Century
For writers of historical fiction, fact fades and feeling persists.
December 8, 2015
Laura Marsh
Forget Moby-Dick marathons, Russia is reading War and Peace.
December 1, 2015
Laura Reston
British academics are outraged that a forthcoming BBC miniseries of War and Peace includes nudity and incest.
September 5, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
N+1 Is Wrong. There Have Been Successful Humanitarian Interventions.
September 30, 1916
Francis Hackett
The Greatest Novel
The triumph of War and Peace

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