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This is an audio version of the essay I just published on Substack here.

It's also available as a YouTube video here.

All quotations are from the Hayward/Harari translation. Buy the Everyman's Library edition from Amazon, Blackwells, Waterstones or Bookshop.org with this affiliate link: https://geni.us/bZsI

I mentioned this series of historical fiction in my podcast of this post:

The Revolution of Marina M, Janet Fitch

The Chimes of a Lost Cathedral, Janet Fitch

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This is an audio version of the essay I just published on Substack here.

It's also available as a YouTube video here.

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This is an audio version of the essay I just published on Substack here.

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Introducing my slow-read of Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, running from April through July 2026 on my Substack.

Simon and Kristine's conversation.

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Hayward/Harari English translation (Paperback)Pevear and Volokhonsky English translation (Paperback)

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