Gary Saul Morson is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and teaches Russian and world literature at Northwestern University. His latest book, Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Ultimate Questions and Why Their Answers Matter, will be published next year.
Gary Saul Morson
Meeting of Romantic Minds
How a German university town helped usher in the modern age
by Gary Saul Morson | Thursday, February 24, 2022
Verifiable Truths
The thinkers who tried to strip metaphysics from philosophy
by Gary Saul Morson | Thursday, October 15, 2020
Enigma From the East
A Soviet émigré’s never-ending battle to be understood
by Gary Saul Morson | Monday, December 03, 2018
Revolutionary Chaos
The first-ever English translation of a 20th-century Russian masterpiece
by Gary Saul Morson | Friday, January 17, 2020
My Teacher, Harold Bloom
His example helped shape my own approach to literature
by Gary Saul Morson | Monday, October 21, 2019
Foes of Judgment
Numbers don’t always reveal the true nature of things
by Gary Saul Morson | Wednesday, February 28, 2018
A Window on Europe
How a tsar turned a fetid bog into an imperial capital
by Gary Saul Morson | Monday, March 05, 2018
Totalitarianism in Practice
Terror as a way of life in East Germany, Poland, and Hungary
by Gary Saul Morson | Friday, December 07, 2012
Persecution Complex
A young Bolshevik revolutionary's unlikely and bloody rise to power
by Gary Saul Morson | Wednesday, December 10, 2014
