Life and Fate is journalistic in style and never had a chance to be edited. Chapter after chapter gives us the day-to-day experience of life on the frontlines of totalitarianism.

”Life and Fate” therefore must stand as a monument to his moral courage in trying to speak out against Stalin`s Archipelago. But raw courage makes heroes, not literary giants.

Life and Fate was an incendiary book, and Soviet authorities treated it as such. The KGB confiscated every copy of the manuscript, as well as the typewriter ribbons Grossman used to write it.

Life and Fate should be on anyone’s shortlist of twentieth-century literature, but it’s imperative reading for anyone who refers to “communism” in the context of any current political developments in ...

Now, Life and Fate has taken a startling new role in discussions of life under the rule of a Russian autocrat. The American journalist Evan Gershkovich, the son of Soviet Jewish emigres, was ...

My review of Lev Dodin’s staging of “Life and Fate” was in yesterday’s paper, but I wanted to come back to this show and especially its source material, Vasily Grossman&#821… ...

Life and Fate is as much a novel about genocide as it is about war. When they arrive, David is condemned to death. Sofya is a doctor and the Nazis are willing to spare her. She declines.