Christine Jacobson

Christine Jacobson is assistant curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts at Harvard University’s Houghton Library. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and tweets at @internetstine.

Refuge and Connection: On “Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li”

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....

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LITERARY CRITICISM

A Look at Anthropodermic Bibliopegy: On Megan Rosenbloom’s “Dark Archives”

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

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HISTORY

Giving “Doctor Zhivago” Another Chance

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

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AROUND THE WORLD

FICTION