Day of the Oprichnik

Victoria Nelson is a writer of fiction, criticism, and memoir. Her most recent books are The Secret Life of Puppets and Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural. She teaches in Goddard College’s MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Victoria Nelson

His Majesty: On Vladimir Sorokin’s “Day of the Oprichnik”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Kenneth Gross is the author, most recently, of Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life and Shylock is Shakespeare. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Rochester.

Kenneth Gross

Lindsay Waters is executive editor for the Humanities at the Harvard University Press and author of Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Perishing, and the Eclipse of Scholarship.

Lindsay Waters

V. N. Alexander, novelist and philosopher of science, is the author most recently of Locus Amoenus and Trixie. She is a Public Scholar at the New York Council for the Humanities and a director of the Dactyl Foundation.

V. N. Alexander

Paul Auster is an author, most recently of the novels 4321 and Sunset Park.

Paul Auster

Harold Bloom’s most recent books include The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible and The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime. He is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.

Harold Bloom

Stanley Fish is Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. His most recent book is Versions of Academic Freedom: From Professionalism to Revolution.

Stanley Fish

K. J. Knoespel is McEver Professor of Engineering and the Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech where he is building research on astrobiology between the human and natural sciences.

K. J. Knoespel

Mitchell Meltzer is the author of Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic American Literature. He teaches at NYU.

Mitchell Meltzer

Joan Richardson is Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and American Studies at The Graduate Center CUNY. She is the author, most recently, of Pragmatism and American Experience and The Natural History of Pragmatism: The Fact of Feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein.

Joan Richardson

Dorion Sagan is a writer, essayist, and editor whose recent books include Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science and Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel.

Dorion Sagan

<h4>Susan Stewart&rsquo;s most recent books are Red Rover, a book of poems, and The Poet&rsquo;s Freedom: A Notebook on Making, forthcoming in December from the University of Chicago Press. She is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities at Princeton.</h4>

Susan Stewart

Eric Wilson is Professor of English at Wake Forest University. His recent books include Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck; or, Why We Can’t Stop Looking at Terrible Things and The Mercy of Eternity: A Memoir of Depression and Grace.

Eric Wilson

<h4>Michael Wood teaches at Princeton; he is the author, most recently, of Yeats and Violence. His other books include Literature and the Taste of Knowledge, The Road to Delphi, Children of Silence, and America in the Movies.&nbsp;</h4>
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Michael Wood

A Florilegium for Angus Fletcher

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

Victoria Nelson is a writer of fiction, criticism, and memoir. Her most recent books are The Secret Life of Puppets and Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural. She teaches in Goddard College’s MFA Program in Creative Writing.