Christine Jacobson finds a “convivial companion,” as well as catharsis, in “Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li,” edited by Brigid Hughes....

Megan Rosenbloom combines perspectives from history, science, and the rare book world to tell her strange and compelling story....

Christine Jacobson celebrates the appearance of Nicolas Pasternak Slater’s faithful yet natural translation of his uncle Boris Pasternak’s “Doctor Zhivago.”...