“War and Peace”

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Labor Day hasn’t even arrived, but I’m already thinking of Christmas.

One of the items I’ll covet this holiday season is the highly anticipated new translation of War and Peace by my favorite Russian translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

Over the years, this husband-and-wife team has introduced many new English readers to the glorious storytelling of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Although these giants should be read in Russian, I’ll stick with English for now.

The new Tolstoy book is expected to be in stores on October 16th, just in time for the parents of baby Susan Sontags (and Oprah) to help propel it to bestseller status.