A Count Becomes a Waiter in a Novel of Soviet Supremacy “Beyond the door of the luxurious Hotel Metropol lies Theater Square and the rest of Moscow, and beyond its city limits the tumultuous landscape of 20th-century Russia. The year 1922 is a good starting point for a Russian epic, but for the purposes…(Read More)
‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ is a charming reminder of what it means to be classy By Ron Charles September 19 How delightful that in an era as crude as ours this finely composed new novel by Amor Towles stretches out with old-World elegance. “A Gentleman in Moscow” offers a chance to sink back into…(Read More)
You can find the interview I gave to the Wall Street Journal’s Lucy Feldman (while comfortably seated at the Russian Tea Room) here…(Read More)
Read my short piece for Condé Nast Traveler which is on my great-great-grand father’s hat box and his travels in the Belle Epoqué here…(Read More)