Sometime this month, the most powerful woman in show business will welcome her most dysfunctional guest yet: Leo Tolstoy's adulterous, morphine- addicted, self-sterilizing, suicidal heroine, Anna ...

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 ...

Leo Tolstoy's story of the woman who ditches her testy cold fish of a husband for a dashing army officer in 19th-century Russia is not only routinely described as the greatest of all novels; it has ...

Often styled a romance, one of the story’s themes is the corrupting influence of adultery on the human soul.

William Faulkner called it the best novel ever written. Ernest Hemingway believed that anyone who wanted to be a writer had to read it. More than a century since Leo Tolstoy penned the lives of an ...

When you wait as long as I did to read “Anna Karenina” for the first time — I’ll be 50 in August — there’s no way you can come to it without any preconceptions. For one thing, I already knew the ...

Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Aaron Taylor-Johnson star in a bold adaptation of Leo Tolstoy novel of the same name. By Todd McCarthy Anna Karenina Keira Knightley Film Still - H 2012 One of the many ...

The other day, one of the London newspapers reported that the story of "Anna Karenina," by Leo Tolstoy, had been republished in Russia. It was a new edition of a classic originally released in the ...

Book of the Day: Tolstoy’s work invites readers into a world where passion collides with expectation, where private anguish ...

The year’s second new “Anna Karenina” adaptation—and the worse of the two—opens today (it’s the one directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley). The better, by far, came out in the spring, ...