andrew d. kaufman

Articles

Selected Contributing Articles

  • Inside Higher Ed, “Making Real Change a Classroom at a Time,” September 9, 2020. Read the article.
  • Newsweek, “Students don’t need you to be a perfect teacher right now. They need you to be honest and human,” May 7, 2020. Read the article.
  • Andy has teamed up with 12 Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical, Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 to create the official Great Comet blog series (March-May 2017)
  • The Daily Beast, Ten Russian Novels To Read Before You Die, Thursday, October 8, 2015. Read the article.
  • The Huffington Post, Why Putin Needs to Read War and Peace, Monday, April 6, 2015. Read the article.
  • The Washington Post, Changing the way juvenile offenders see themselves—one book at a time, Sunday, December 21, 2014.  Read the article.
  • Off The Shelf, 10 Russian Novels to Read Before You Die, October 9, 2014. Read the article.
  • Off The Shelf, War and Peace: The Only Classic Needed for Modern Times, October 8, 2014. Read the article.
  • The Huffington Post, Beautiful Dystopia: A New Novel Reveals the Light Amid Russia’s Darkness, August 12, 2014 Read the article
  • The Huffington Post, 7 Reasons You Should Give ‘War and Peace’ a Chance, May 16, 2014 Read the article
  • The Daily Beast, How Tolstoy Can Save Putin’s Soul, May 10, 2014 Read the article
  • The Huffington Post, Tolstoy’s Take on Sochi: Now Is a Time for Celebration Not Cynicism, February 7, 2014 Read the article
  • NPR.com article, An Olympic Preview, From the Canon of Russian Literature, February 5, 2014 Read the article
  • ‘Crime and Punishment’:  A Novel Path to Redemption for Snowden? Richmond Times-Dispatch (August 11, 2013) Read the article
  • How Joe Wright Got Anna Right and the Critics Got It Wrong, TheMillions.com (February 8, 2013) Read the article
  • Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: 8 Experts on Who’s Greater, (Contributor) TheMillions.com (April 23, 2012) Read the article
  • Humans and the Humanities, article co-authored with Books Behind Bars student Hannah Ehrlinspiel, Insider Higher Ed  (March 14, 2011) Read the article
  • Two Hedgehogs: Art and Argument in War and Peace (April 2008) Download the article
  • “War and Peace,” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, ed. William A. Darity, Jr., Vol. 9, 2nd ed., Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA (2008)
  • Reader’s Guide to Leo Tolstoy’s ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’, Co-author, “The Big Read,” National Endowment for the Arts (2007). Download the guide
  • Finding Inspiration in Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Oprah’s Book Club, Oprah.com (2004) Read the article
  • Why Men Should Read Anna Karenina, Oprah’s Books Club, Oprah.com (2004) Read the article
  • Pronouncing Names in Anna Karenina, Oprah’s Book Club, Oprah.com (2004) Read the article
  • Tolstoy Inspiration for Today (2004) Read the article
  • The Great Russian Books and My Spiritual Quest (2003) Read the article

Selected Academic Articles

  • Existential Quest and Artistic Possibility in Tolstoy’s The Cossacks, Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 83, No. 2 (2005) Download the article
  • Microcosm and Macrocosm in War and Peace: The Interrelationship of Poetics and Metaphysics, Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3(1999) Download the article
  • L.N. Tolstoy and N. N. Strakhov: Labyrinths of Creative Linkages (in Russian), Tolstoy Research Journal, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gorky Institute of World Literature, Moscow (2009) Download the article
  • Between Homer and the Gospels: Olenin’s Search for Truth in The Cossacks (in Russian) (2008) Download the article