Anna Karenina is a very interesting novel about humanity, love, the politics or strategies or contractual aspects of love, plus it’s a great story. And it’s very readable; as in don’t buy the hype ...

Joe Wright’s dust-blowing new adaptation of Anna Karenina faces a towering mountain of precedent: not only the greatest novel by the man Nabokov called “the greatest Russian writer of prose fiction” ...

Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina has now been brought to the screen eight times. Yet no other version – indeed, no other film of any subject – has ever looked quite like this, as director Joe Wright’s ...

Characters are caught between love and duty in Imperial Russia in a stage adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel “Anna Karenina” to be performed by Friendswood High School thespians Oct. 6-16. The ...

While on a trip to Ukraine, I read Anna Karenina. I leave it to the reader both of the book and of this brief post to determine the type of personality that Leo Tolstoy, the author, portrays. The ...

Many things inspire Stevie Nicks, even a 147-year old Russian love story. Nicks loves romance stories, some more tragic than others, and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina ticks all the boxes. Although, the ...

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 ...