Yearning for Home
An attempt to make sense of the conflicting signals — the “warm breeze” — wafting over from a USSR embarking on perestroika and glasnost
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Letter to President Reagan
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn explains his reasons for declining an invitation to meet with the president at the White House.
An Encounter Sabotaged
The inside story of President Reagan’s invitation for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to visit the White House in May 1982.
Wolves and Ephemerality
On a silent encounter with a pair of Canadian wolves, and the transience of earthly life, especially for an exile.
March 1917: Solzhenitsyn’s Modernist Masterpiece Captures Russia’s Unraveling
A review of March 1917 (Book 2), Node 3 of The Red Wheel, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Marian Schwartz.