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'Wonder Confronts Certainty' — A Conversation with Professor Gary Saul Morson about the Deep Mysteries of Great Russian Literature

Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler

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Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate

I want to turn their tables a little bit. I appreciate that you made me look at things I hadn't seen there before. If it's a literary work that you don't get a lot more from reading over a few years later, if I want you, OK, I got the message. I'll just get it again. That's not what makes it great. The idea that it can't be reduced to any message you paraphrase is there. It's of interest to people who don't care at all about the circumstances in which it was written and tells you ultimate truth.

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