Anger When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him. Elif Batuman 19
Christmas At the beginning of 'A Christmas Carol,' Scrooge embodies one of the central tenets of depression: that one has always been this way - and always will... Elif Batuman 16
Christmas Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New... Elif Batuman 14
Christmas For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that I remembered it from... Elif Batuman 15
