Tag Archives: Tolstoy

Tolstoy Would Be Absolutely Outraged: Olga Kenton in Conversation with Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater on Translating “Anna Karenina”

Nicolas Pasternak-Slater and Maya Slater have recently completed their translation of one of Tolstoy’s best-known and most widely read novels, “Anna Karenina” (scheduled to be published in 2026 by the Folio Society). In this interview, Olga Kenton discusses with them the novel, obstacles that arose during the translation process, and the significance of engaging with Russian literature in the twenty-first century. 

Always to Seek: On Reading Russian Literature in Translation

By Brandy Harrison It all began with youthful audacity. When someone asked me one day, “What are you reading?,” the answer was War and Peace. There was a pause, a faint flicker of confusion in the face hovering above my own, and then a slower, more tentative second question: “Why . . . are you […]

Anna Karenina, Recomposed: Carmen Boullosa’s “The Book of Anna,” translated from Spanish by Samantha Schnee

The Book of Anna hinges on a paradoxical fantasy: rescuing Anna Karenina from Tolstoy.