Caryl Emerson on Tolstoy’s art, ideas and life, and the extent to which these came together; Benjamin Markovits returns to a treasured childhood book: The Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook; Eve Babitz – a “fizzy”, “fabulous” chronicler of 1960s and 70s Los Angeles – is mid revival. Megan Marz fills us in.

Lives and Deaths: Essential stories by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Boris Dralyuk

Leo Tolstoy: A very short introduction by Liza Knapp

Leo Tolstoy by Andrei Zorin

The Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook by Gary Gygax

I Used To Be Charming: The rest of Eve Babitz, edited by Sara J. Kramer

Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A., by Lili Anolik

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