Hacker News: lermontov

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

lermontov — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:53:43 +0000

Article URL: https://commonreader.wustl.edu/winning-and-losing-at-the-great-game-of-intimacy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306021

Points: 96

# Comments: 27

Anything Could Become a Battleground

lermontov — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:22:00 +0000

Article URL: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/perfect-moment-god-sex-art-culture-wars-butler/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237292

Points: 8

# Comments: 7

Literary Sins

lermontov — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:00:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/seven-literary-sins

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189618

Points: 28

# Comments: 3

The Noonday Devil

lermontov — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:29:34 +0000

Article URL: https://porticoquarterly.com/book/the-noonday-devil/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094050

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

The Rise of the "Scenario," a Trendy Way of Forecasting Our Dystopian Future

lermontov — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:16:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-rise-of-the-scenario-a-trendy-way-of-forecasting-our-dystopian-future

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052229

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

The Music of Destruction

lermontov — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:17:48 +0000

Article URL: https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-music-of-destruction-fuelling

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913633

Points: 19

# Comments: 0

A beginner's guide to Chekhov's short stories

lermontov — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:43:33 +0000

Article URL: https://clutteredpapers.substack.com/p/chekhov-stories

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909539

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

"Worthless Idiot, Donkey Head": Parodies of Pedantry on the Renaissance Stage

lermontov — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:39:09 +0000

Article URL: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/parodies-of-pedantry/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855808

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Music of Destruction

lermontov — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:01:31 +0000

Article URL: https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-music-of-destruction-fuelling

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767317

Points: 27

# Comments: 13

Closer to Rude Than Snide: An Interview with Leo Robson

lermontov — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:59:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/closer-to-rude-than-snide/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728334

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

The Meadows of Medieval Summer

lermontov — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:21:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/meadows-medieval-summer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48683417

Points: 13

# Comments: 10

Man out of Time: The travels and ecstasies of a Russian aesthete

lermontov — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:45:28 +0000

Article URL: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/evocations-italy-pavel-muratov-russian-travel-modernism-art/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360956

Points: 19

# Comments: 1

Thornton Wilder's Last Play Vanished into Thin Air. Or Did It?

lermontov — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:56:32 +0000

https://archive.ph/0g4Eu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298819

Points: 11

# Comments: 5

What Gets Kept

lermontov — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:46:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-jack-kerouac-left-behind

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258848

Points: 68

# Comments: 79

I'm Not Sorry

lermontov — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:08:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n09/thomas-nagel/i-m-not-sorry

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151842

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Inventing Cyrillic (2024)

lermontov — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:02:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/inventing-cyrillic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032393

Points: 50

# Comments: 116

The Hypochondriac's Complaint

lermontov — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:09:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.publicbooks.org/the-hypochondriacs-complaint/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883889

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A History of Erasures Learning to Write Like Leylâ Erbil

lermontov — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:39:40 +0000

Article URL: https://thepointmag.com/criticism/a-history-of-erasures/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837857

Points: 26

# Comments: 1

Monsters in the Archives by Caroline Bicks – The Writing Secrets of Stephen King

lermontov — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:43:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/30/monsters-in-the-archives-by-caroline-bicks-review-the-writing-secrets-of-stephen-king

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735216

Points: 20

# Comments: 4

Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty

lermontov — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:48:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/portrait-author-historian/italo-calvino-traveller-world-uncertainty

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725403

Points: 122

# Comments: 21