My translation of Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate was first published in 1985. Back then, the novel — the Russian text of which was first published in Switzerland in 1980, some two decades after ...

It’s early 1943. Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia are in a bitter struggle for their very survival. Life and Fate is a sweeping panorama of Soviet Society, an epic tale of a country told ...

Mark Hemingway reviews Strange Stars, a history of the confluence of pop and sci-fi: “For readers with any significant interest in either rock or science fiction—and especially for readers interested ...

Tatiana Shestakova as Anna Shtrum, Igor Ivanov as Mostovsky and Daria Rumyantseva as Nadia Shtrum in 'Life and Fate' Even more radical as a reinterpretation, in a production that sticks to a period ...

As part of this series, JW3 present a very special evening exploring Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, which has been described as the War and Peace of the 20th century. The event will offer a rare ...

Film Forum presents a two-week run of Frederick Wiseman’s first feature film “The Last Letter” (2002, in French with English subtitles), paired with Yitzhak Goskind’s 11-minute short “Jewish Life in ...

The plot takes place in 1942-1943, during the defense of Stalingrad. The Jew Viktor Strum is a talented nuclear physicist working in one of the country's institutes on the creation of an atomic bomb.