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Maxim D. Shrayer

Maxim D. Shrayer is a professor at Boston College and the author, most recently, of Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story (Syracuse University Press) and Bunin and Nabokov (Alpina Non-fiction).

Fall 2015

“I Am Talking to You Like King Solomon”

By: Maxim D. Shrayer

Saul Bellow once called Nabokov a “cold narcissist.” His letters to his wife, Véra, decisively dispel that common misconception.

Lucky Grossman

Spring 2011

Lucky Grossman

By: Maxim D. Shrayer

Vasily Grossman was one of the principal voices of anti-Nazi resistance, and a legendary journalist who spent 1000 days at the front during World War II.

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