Bob Blaisdell

Bob Blaisdell is the author of Creating Anna Karenina: Tolstoy and the Birth of Literature’s Most Enigmatic Heroine (Pegasus, 2020) and the editor of The Wit and Wisdom of Anthony Trollope (Blackthorn Press, 2003).

Articles

When Tolstoy Met Trollope: On Sophie Ratcliffe’s “Loss, a Love Story”
Bob Blaisdell reviews Sophie Ratcliffe’s “Loss, a Love Story: Imagined Histories and Brief Encounters.”
Apr 17
- Memoir
You’re Such a Character: The Knausgaard Behind Knausgaard
Bob Blaisdell examines the public life of autofiction icon Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Dec 30, 2023
- Memoir
- Nonfiction
The Open Presentness of Past Moments: On Gary Saul Morson’s “Wonder Confronts Certainty”
Bob Blaisdell reviews Gary Saul Morson’s “Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter.”
May 17, 2023
Chekhov Large and Small
Bob Blaisdell examines new biographies of Anton Chekhov by Michael C. Finke and Donald Rayfield.
Feb 15, 2022
- Biography
Mr. Mudrick Is 100
Marvin Mudrick, my touchstone for all things literary since I was 18, was born a hundred years ago, July 17, 1921, in Philadelphia. He was the...
Jul 17, 2021
Mr. Mudrick Is 100
Marvin Mudrick, my touchstone for all things literary since I was 18, was born a hundred years ago, July 17, 1921, in Philadelphia. He was the...
Bob BlaisdellJul 17, 2021
Troy Is Burning: Anne Carson and Rosanna Bruno Reimagine Euripides’s “The Trojan Women”
Bob Blaisdell is engrossed in Anne Carson’s reimagining of Euripides’s “The Trojan Women,” illustrated by Rosanna Bruno.
Jun 19, 2021
- Comics & Games
Writing Isn’t a Sacred Activity, It Is an Ordinary Activity: A Conversation with Karl Ove Knausgaard
Bob Blaisdell talks with writer Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Jan 8, 2021
The Other Mr. Met
Bob Blaisdell reviews a new biography of the late, great Tom Terrific.
Dec 27, 2020
- Biography
- Sports
Rapt Rereadings
Viv Groskop’s new book is a passionate love letter to the classics of French literature.
Aug 14, 2020
- Memoir
- Translation
The Nose Nose: On Gogol’s “And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon: Essential Stories”
Bob Blaisdell reviews “And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon,” the recently published collection of stories by Nikolai Gogol.
Apr 27, 2020
- Fiction
- Translation
Just Dying for It: On Tolstoy’s “Lives and Deaths: Essential Stories”
Bob Blaisdell gets to the bottom of Leo Tolstoy’s “Lives and Deaths: Essential Stories,” translated by Boris Dralyuk.
Feb 15, 2020
- Fiction
- Translation