Some things you can’t take back, or unsay. Many years ago I told the wife of a friend that I really wanted to read Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. No problem there, but I pronounced the title Anna (so ...

Sometime this month, the most powerful woman in show business will welcome her most dysfunctional guest yet: Leo Tolstoy's adulterous, morphine- addicted, self-sterilizing, suicidal heroine, Anna ...

Svetlana Khodchenkova ('Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy') will headline 'Anna K' a contemporary retelling of the classic novel. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief In the updated Netflix version, Anna ...

William Faulkner called it the best novel ever written. Ernest Hemingway believed that anyone who wanted to be a writer had to read it. More than a century since Leo Tolstoy penned the lives of an ...

Leo Tolstoy's story of the woman who ditches her testy cold fish of a husband for a dashing army officer in 19th-century Russia is not only routinely described as the greatest of all novels; it has ...

Netflix has set a contemporary reimagining of Leo Tolstoy’s iconic novel Anna Karenina as its first-ever Russian original drama series. The project is billed as a lavish retelling of the literary ...

Toronto -- Aaron Johnson was terrific as Kick-Ass, the homemade, do-it-yourself superhero in the hilarious "Kick-Ass." He was excellent as John Lennon in "Nowhere Boy," the story of the former ...

Under our senseless conditions, the life of a good woman is a perpetual struggle against self; it is only fair that woman should bear her share of the ills she has brought upon man. — Rousseau, Emile ...

We talk about people—friends, lovers, public figures—as though they have consistent, defined personalities. “She’d never do that,” we say, or, “No, that’s not his style.” But Mary Gaitskill, the ...

As multifaceted as its creator, Anna Karenina is a great holy mess of a book. It's a brilliant psychological novel; it's a sweeping social exploration; it's a philosophic treatise on moral relativism ...