The Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system has died of heart failure. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was 89. NPR's Anne Garrels talks with Steve Inskeep about ...

In his last interview, conducted last summer, Solzhenitsyn had some important words for all of us. Responding to a question about the danger that there will be no accounting for the crimes of the ...

For 15 years, French viewers watched Mr. Pivot on his weekly show, “Apostrophes,” to decide what to read next. By Adam Nossiter A dissident is to a dictatorship what a bald fact is to an edifice of ...

Good morning. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “uses his characters to announce counterintuitive and unpopular truths,” Robert Kaplan writes in a survey of his WWI novels. We say hindsight is 20/20, but in ...

A dissident is to a dictatorship what a bald fact is to an edifice of lies, the revelation of which causes the whole thing to crumble. By Bret Stephens Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, born Dec. 11, 1918, did ...