David Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992. He has written hundreds of pieces for the magazine, including reporting from Russia, the Middle East, and ...

Zoya Boguslavskaya, a Soviet and Russian writer, playwright, literary critic, widow of poet Andrei Voznesensky, and winner of ...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet ...

Two men share a cramped Buenos Aires cell at the height of Argentina’s military dictatorship, though only one makes any effort at conversation. Luis Molina (Tonatiuh) is an unceasing chatterbox, ...

In December 1887, four months after beginning his studies in law at Kazan University, about 700 kilometres east of Moscow, 17-year-old Vladimir Lenin was arrested at a student demonstration protesting ...

One of his books is simply entitled “Russia,” where he examines the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Bolshevik takeover of that country. The book, as you would expect, contains much information ...

Though Jean-Michel Basquiat was a sensation in his lifetime, it was thirty years after his death that one of his pieces fetched a record price of $110.5 million. Stephen Smith explores the artist's ...

Bill Condon's Kiss of the Spider Woman challenges a belief I've long held: that in order for a musical to succeed, it must have memorable musical numbers. For these reasons alone, this movie shouldn't ...