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April 12, 2011

Arts

The Murder of Leo Tolstoy

The author attends a Tolstoy conference as a grad student. She wears flip-flops, sweatpants and a flannel shirt, and tries to determine if Tolstoy was murdered.

Elif Batuman Harper's Feb 2009 Permalink