This paper by Caryl Emerson was presented at the Northwestern University Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought Conference celebrating Gary Saul Morson in April 2024. The title of this talk is built off a bad piece of word-play. Donna Orwin and Sandy Goldberg opened the conference on Saul’s latest, Wonder Confronts Certainty. Now I
This is an interview with Professor Mikhail Epstein on his latest book The Russian Anti-World: Politics on the Verge of Apocalypse. It was conducted on May 18, 2023 by Peter Gregory Winsky. Mikhail’s book can be purchased here, and all proceeds go to aiding Ukrainian refugees. Mikhail N. Epstein is a cultural and literary
This paper was part of a roundtable discussion at the international symposium, “Russian Literature and Philosophy: Religion, Nationalism and Dissidence,” which took place at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil, November 2022. The roundtable included Paul Contino, Gary Saul Morson, and the author of this paper, Caryl Emerson. It is an honor