The Repo Man director relocates Gogol’s surreal novella to the old west in what he says will be his final film ...

The question of Nikolai Gogol’s “belonging”—especially now, as Ukrainian and Russian cultures, long bound by an imperial past, are severing their ties before our eyes—remains a deeply painful issue ...

What to make of Nikolai Gogol, Russia’s “greatest comic writer,” who “thoroughly baffled his contemporaries”? “Everywhere Gogol describes a world of incandescent inanity,” Gary Saul Morson writes: ...

Nikolai Gogol is one of Russia’s most beloved writers. Gogol wrote short stories and plays, and died at the young age of 43. Your local library has a wide selection of materials both on or about him.

A character to challenge the best writers. By Bret Stephens Nikolai Gogol, the 19th-century author and playwright, understood better than any artist since what “perfect nonsense goes on in the world.” ...

The word “weird” could have been invented for Russia’s greatest comic writer, Nikolai Gogol (1809–52, though one almost wants to write 1852–09), who actually managed to be born on April 1 (March 20 by ...

Donald Trump may not realize it, but he has adopted the strategy that was recommended to Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, the shady protagonist of Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls,” whose lawyer (in the ...

The thing about big plans is that they require people to carry them out. The problem of personnel particularly plagued Peter the Great. Convinced by his European advisers that his country was backward ...