Publications

1. Publications—Books

1993

Tolstoy’s Art and Thought, 1847-1880.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Distinctions:

Honorable Mention, Vucinich Prize for Distinguished Book in Slavic Studies, 1993

Excerpted in:

Second Edition (1995) of the Norton Anna Karenina; published in Russian as Iskusstvo i mysl’ Tolstogo. 1847-1880. Trans. Anna Grodetskaia. St. Petersburg: “Akademicheskii proekt”, 2006. 

Reviews:

Donskov, Andrew. Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes 35.3 (1993): 423-424. http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/171520.

Freeborn, Richard. Modern Philology 93.3 (1996): 400-403. http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/171515.

Goodlife, John D. Philosophy and Literature 19.1 (1995): 166-167. http://resolver.scholarsportal.info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/resolve/1086329x/v19i0001/166_taat1.

Mandelker, Amy. The Slavic and East European Journal 38.3 (1994): 504-505.http://www.jstor.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/stable/308856.

McSweeney, Kerry. “Anna Karenina: Tolstoy’s Realism and His Ideas.” Queen’s Quarterly 101.4 (1994): 875-885.

Shepherd, David. “Review: Taking Tolstoi Lying Down.” The Slavonic and East European Review 72.4 (1994): 680-685. http://www.jstor.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/stable/4211637.

Šilbajoris, Rimvydas. Slavic Review 53.2 (1994): 570-571. http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/171518.

Yarwood, E. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 31.4 (1993): 610.

Warner, Nicholas O. Russian Review 54.1 (1995): 118-119. http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/171517.

Woodcock, George. “Dostoevsky in Our Time.” The Sewanee Review 103.3 (1995): 463-470. http://www.jstor.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/stable/27547065.

2007

Consequences of Consciousness: Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.

Reviews:

Elizabeth Cheresh Allen, Slavic Review, vol. 68 no. 1 (2009), p. 185; http://www.jstor.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/stable/20453307.

Richard Freeborn. The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 90, No. 3 (July 2012), pp. 500-501.

Jeff  Love, Slavic and East European Journal, 53.1 (Spring 2009) http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/171440.

Hugh McLean, Toronto Slavic Quarterly, http://www.utoronto.ca/tsq/23/Orwin-retsenzija.shtml.

Gary Saul Morson, Russian Review, vol.67, no.4, pp.682-683,2008 http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/171436.

Newlin, Thomas. Tolstoy Studies Journal 20 (2008): 106-108; http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/171457.

Anna Schur. University of Toronto Quarterly 80.2 (2011): 359-360.

2017

Simply Tolstoy.  New York, NY: Simply Charlie, 2017.  40,000 words. See http://getbook.at/simplytolstoy. Available in hard copy, online, and in an audio version.

Reviews:

Bob Blaisdell, “Tolstoy Untangled: Donna Tussing Orwin’s ‘Simply Tolstoy’,” Los Angeles Review of Books, December 25, 2018.

William Nickell, Russian Review, vol. 78. No. 2 (April, 2019), pp. 326-27.

Inessa Medzhibovskaya, Slavonic and East European Review 98.2 (April 2020), pp. 359-60.

Caryl Emerson, “Dostoevskii and Tolstoi over the Last Half-Decade: A Sampling,” Russian Literature 111-112 (January–March 2020), pp. 175-195 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304347920300077?dgcid=author.

2022

Sledstviia Samoosoznaniia: Turgenev, Dostoevskii, Tolstoi. A. G. Grodetskaia, trs. and editor. Translation and re-edit of Orwin, Consequences of Consciousness: Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Boston and St. Petersburg: Academic Studies Press, 2022.

2. Publications—Edited Books

1996

Co-editor with Robin Feuer Miller. Kathryn Feuer. Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996; published in Russian as Tolstoi i stanovlenie “Voiny i mira.” Trans. Tatiana Buzina. St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 2002. 

Reviews:

Gifford, H. TLS—The Times Literary Supplement. 4934 (10/1997): 28.

Gregg, Richard. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 34.9 (1997): 1505-1506.

Jahn, G. R. Slavic and East European Journal 42.3 (1998): 534-536. http://www.jstor.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/stable/309691.

Kopper, John M. Canadian-American Slavic Studies 38.1-2 (2004): 209-211.

Mandelker, A. Slavic Review 56.4 (1997) 810-811. http://www.jstor.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/stable/2502161.

McLean, Hugh. Books in Canada 26.7 (1997): 28. http://search.proquest.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/docview/215189509?accountid=14771.

McMillin, Arnold. The Slavonic and East European Review 76.1 (1998): 129-131. http://www.jstor.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/stable/4212576.

Premo, Diane G. Library Journal 122.1 (1997): 98. http://go.galegroup.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA19079934&v=2.1&u=utoronto_main&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w.

Turner, C. J. G. University of Toronto Quarterly 67.1 (1997): 253-254. http://search.ebscohost.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cjh&AN=312928&site=ehost-live.

Wasiolek, Edward. Modern Philology 96.4 (1999): 544-546. http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/171540.

2002

Editor. The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 

Reviews:

Carden, Patricia. Canadian-American Slavic Studies 41.4 (2007): 474-475.

Gregg, Richard. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 40.8 (2003): 1370.

Kjetsaa, Geir. Russian Review 62.2 (2003): 301-302. http://www.jstor.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/stable/3664188.

“New and Noteworthy.” Contemporary Review 282.1644 (2003): 55-57. http://go.galegroup.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA97228029&v=2.1&u=utoronto_main&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w.

Newlin, Thomas. Slavic and East European Journal 48.3 (2004): 489-490. http://www.jstor.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/stable/3220074.

Pursglove, Michael. The Slavonic and East European Review 81.4 (2003): 725-727.http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/171525.

Reid, Allan. The International Fiction Review 33.1-2 (2006): 100-102. http://go.galegroup.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA152196031&v=2.1&u=utoronto_main&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w.

Šilbajoris, Rimvydas. Slavic Review 62.3 (2003): 632-633. http://www.jstor.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/stable/3185863.

Thompson, Diane Oenning. Journal of European Studies 34.1-2 (2004): 183-186. http://go.galegroup.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA131865672&v=2.1&u=utoronto_main&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w.

2010

Editor. Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Reviews:

Depretto, Catherine. Revue des études slaves 81.4 (2010): 599-601.

Meek, James. “Some Wild Creature.” London Review of Books 32.14 (2010): 5-8. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n14/james-meek/some-wild-creature.

Thompson, Diane Oenning. Journal of European Studies 41.1 (2011): 99-101. http://jes.sagepub.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/content/41/1/99.

S. F. Hudspith, Slavonic and East European Review 89.4 (October 2011):711-12.

[Anonymous]. Forum for Modern Language Studies 48.4 (2012): 486.

Maguire, Muireann. The Modern Language Review 106.4 (2011): 1206-1208.

Scognamiglio, Carlo. The European Legacy 17.4 (2012): 558-559.

2012

Co-editor, with Rick McPeak, Tolstoy on War: Narrative Art and Historical Truth in “War and Peace.”  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012.  Published in simplified Chinese by Economic Science Press (ESP), 2013.

Reviews:

Donald  Rayfield. Times Literary Supplement (November 28, 2013).

Matthew McGarry.  Tolstoy Studies Journal XXIV (2012): 119-121.

A. J. DeBlasio.  Choice (March, 2013), a recommended book.

Alexander Mikaberidze. The Journal of Military History 77.2 (April 2013): 708-710.

Major General H. R. McMaster, John L. Harper & Gilles Andréani (2013): Book Reviews, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, 55:2, 193-94.

Novoe russkoe obozrenie, http://magazines.russ.ru/nlo/2013/121/38n-pr.html.

Kathleen Parthe, Slavic Review, Vol. 72, No. 4 (WINTER 2013), pp. 910-911.

W. Gareth Jones, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 109, No. 1 (January 2014), pp. 304-305.

James Cracraft, The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 92, No. 1 (January 2014), pp. 116-118.

Hugh McLean, Russian Review, Vol. 72, No. 2 (APRIL 2013), pp. 309-311.

Michel Aucouturier, Cahiers du monde russe [En ligne], 53/4 | 2012, mis en ligne le 01 décembre 2013, Consulté le 14 juillet 2014. URL : http://monderusse.revues.org/7889.

3. Publications—Articles in Refereed Journals

1978

 “The Unity of Tolstoi’s Early Works.” Canadian-American Slavic Studies 12, No. 4 (Winter 1978): 449-63.

1983

“Prince Andrei: The Education of a Rational Man.” Slavic Review 42, No. 4 (Winter 1983): 620-31.

“Freedom, Responsibility and the Soul: The Platonic Contribution to Tolstoi’s Psychology.” Canadian Slavonic Papers 25, No. 4 (December 1983): 501-517.

1986

“The Riddle of Prince Nexliudov.” Slavic and East European Journal 30, No. 4 (Winter 1986): 473-486.

1990

 “Nature and the Narrator in Hadji Murad.”  Russian Literature 28 (1990): 125-144.

1999

 “The Return to Nature: Tolstoyan Echos in The Idiot.” The Russian Review 58, No. 1(January 1999): 87-102.

2002

“L. N. Tolstoi i filosofiia otkrytogo otkaza ot filosofii” [L. N. Tolstoy and the philosophy of the rejection of philosophy]. Tolstovskii ezhegodnik (2002): 412-423.

“Vliianie zhanra Platonova dialoga v tvorchestve Tolstogo” [The influence of the genre of the Platonic dialogue on Tolstoy]. Russkaia literatura 1 (February 2002): 38-45.

2010

«Сотворенное и подлинное в описании Бородинского сражения» [The created and the real in the description of the Battle of Borodino]. Русская литература 4 (2010): 30-38.  

2022

 “Tolstoy and Homer Revisited.” Tolstoy Studies Journal XXVII (2015): 3-16. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism: Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy. Ed. Carol Schwartz. Vol. 290Prod. Layman Poupard (Detroit: Gale/Cengage, 2020).

4. Publications—Chapters

1978

The Seagull: A Play by Anton Chekhov.  Trans. David French, assisted and with notes by Donna Orwin. Don Mills, Ontario: General Publishing, 1978.  Republished 1993.

2001

“‘Idiot’ i problema liubvi k drugim i sebialiubiia v tvorchestve F. M. Dostoevskogo.”  [The Idiot and the problem of self-love and love of others in the Works of F. M. Dostoevsky]. In T. A. Kasatkina, ed. Roman F. M. Dostoevskogo “Idiot”: Sovremennoe sostoianie izuchenii. Moscow: “Nasledie”, 2001. 405-424.

2002

“Tolstoy and Courage.” In Orwin, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 222-236. 

2003

“Tolstoy’s Anti-Philosophical Philosophy in Anna Karenina.” In Approaches to Teaching Anna Karenina. Edited by Liza Knapp and Amy Mandelker. New York: MLA, 2003.  Pp. 95-103.

 “What Men Live By: Belief and the Individual in L. Tolstoy and William James.” In William James and Russian Culture. Edited by Joan Delaney Grossman and Ruth Rischin.  Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2003. Pp. 59-79.

2004

“Did Tolstoy or Dostoevsky Believe in Miracles?” In A New Word on The Brothers Karamazov. Edited by Robert Louis Jackson. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2004.  Pp. 105-141.

2005

 “Sterne, Plato, and Tolstoy.”  In Word, Music, History: A Festschrift for Caryl Emerson. Edited by Lazar Fleishman, Gabriella Safran, and Michael Wachtel. 2 vols. Stanford Slavic Studies 29-30 (2005), 1: 327-339.

2006

“Strakhov’s World as a Whole: A Missing Link between Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.”  Catherine O’Neil, et al, eds. Poetics. Self. Place. Essays in Honor of Anna Lisa Crone.  Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica, 2006.  473-493.

2009

“Why Does Levin Read Tyndall?”  Elina Kahla, ed. The Unlimited Gaze: Essays in Honour of Professor Natalia Baschmakoff. (Aleksanteri Series 2/2009. Helsinki: Aleksanteri Series, 2009). 203-212.

2010

“Leo Tolstoy: Patriot, Pacifist, and Molodets.”  In Orwin, ed. Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 76-95.

2012

“Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910): Art and Truth.” In Michael Bell, ed. The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 277-293.

“The Awful Poetry of War: Tolstoy’s Borodino.” In Orwin and Rick McPeak, eds. Tolstoy on War: Narrative Art and Historical Truth in “War and Peace.” (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012), 123-139.

“War and Peace from the Military Point of View.” In Orwin and Rick McPeak, eds. Tolstoy on War: Narrative Art and Historical Truth in “War and Peace.” (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012), 98-110.

“Introduction.”  In Orwin and Rick McPeak, eds. Tolstoy on War: Narrative Art and Historical Truth in “War and Peace.” (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012), 1-11.

2013

Александр Дружинин в роли связного между Львом Толстым и Денисом Давыдовым [Alexander Druzhinin as Match Maker between Tolstoy and Denis Davydov]. In E. D. Tolstaia, ed., Толстой в Иерусалеме [Tolstoy in Jerusalem]  (Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2013), 191-201.

Толстой сегодня [Tolstoy Today].  In E. D. Tolstaia, ed., Толстой в Иерусалеме [Tolstoy in Jerusalem] (Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2013), 15-26.

2016

“Achilles in Crime and Punishment.”  Svetlana Evdokimova, ed., Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky (Academic Studies Press: Boston, 2016), 367-378.

2018

“What is the Good According to Tolstoy, and How Good Can I Be?” Predrag Cicovacki and Heidi Nada Grek, eds., Tolstoy and Spirituality (Academic Studies Press, 2018), 37-52.

2021

“Tolstoy’s Dogmatic Narrator in his Sevastopol Sketches.” 7500 words. Tolstoi and The Evolution of His Artistic World, Joe Andrew and Robert Reed, eds. (Leiden and Boston: Brill Press, summer, 2021), 84-101.

5. Non-Refereed Publications—Books

1993

Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. Translated by David French, with assistance by Donna Orwin. Notes by Donna Orwin. 1978. Vancouver: Talon Books, 1993.

2005

Editor and Introduction, Leo Tolstoy: Stories for Young People. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2005.

2006

Introduction, Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy. New York: Barnes and Noble, 2006.

2008

Introduction. The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated by Constance Garnett.  New York: Barnes and Noble, 2008. Pp. vii-ix.

Introduction.  Leo Tolstoy.  The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories. Translated and with notes by David McDuff and Paul Foote. London: Penguin Books, 2008. PP xv-xxxiii.

6. Non-Refereed Publications—Articles

1988

Participant in round table on Richard F. Gustafson’s Leo Tolstoy. Resident and Stranger (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1986). Tolstoy Studies Journal 1 (1988): 13-26.

1993

Participant in round table on Orwin, Tolstoy’s Art and Thought, 1847-1880. Tolstoy Studies Journal 6 (1993): 157-170.

1996

Participant in round table on Amy Mandelker’s Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and the Victorian Novel. Tolstoy Studies Journal 7 (1995-1996): 134-138.

1998

Entry on Tolstoy in The Reference Guide to Russian Literature.  Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998. Pp. 812-817.

2006

 “‘Mir kak tseloe’ N. Strakhova: Nedostaiushchee zveno mezhdu Tolstym i Dostoevskim” [The World as a Whole by N. N. Strakhov: A missing link between Tolstoy and Dostoevsky].Tolstoi. Novyi vek. Zhurnal pazmyshlenii 2 (2006)/ Gos. Memor. i prirod. Zapovednik Muzei-usad’ba L. N. Tolstogo “Iasnaia Poliana”. Iasnaia Poliana: 197-221.

2007

“Vliianie I. S. Turgeneva i rasskaz L. N. Tolstogo “Utro pomeshchika”  [The Influence of I. S. Turgenev and Tolstoy’s Story “A Landowner’s Morning”]. Lev Tolstoi i mirovaia literature. Materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferencii. (Ottawa and Iasnaia Poliana: Izdatel’skii dom “Iasnaia Poliana,” 2007). 9-17.

7. Non-Refereed Publications—Chapters

1996

“Tolstoy and Patriotism.”  In Lev Tolstoy and the Concept of Brotherhood. Edited by Andrew Donskov. Ottawa: Legas, 1996. 51-70.

2000

“Psikhologiia very v ‘Anne Kareninoi’ i v ‘Brat’iakh Karamazovykh’.” [The Psychology of Belief in Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov]. In Mir filologii (Posviashchaetsia Lidii Dmitirievne Gromovoi-Opul’skoi).  Edited by Marina Shcherbakova. Moscow: IMLI, 2000. 235-345.

2003

“Tolstoi, Stern, i Platon” [Tolstoy, Sterne, and Plato].  In Tolstoi i mirovaia literatura. Papers from Conference at Iasnaia Poliana, August 28-30, 2003. Tula: Izdatel’skii dom “Iasnaia Poliana”, 2005. 45-56.

2008

“Pochemu Levin chitaet Tindalia?” Lev Tolstoi i mirovaia literatura. Materialy V mezhdunarodnoinauchnoikonferenciivIasnoiPoliane 12-16 avgusta 2008 goda. Tula: Izdatel’skii dom “Iasnaia Poliana,” 2008. 209-218.

2012

“Lev Tolstoi: patriot, patsifist, i molodets” [Lev Tolstoy: Patriot, pacifist, and Mensch]. Tolstoi i mirovaia literatura. Papers from Conference at Iasnaia Poliana, August 2010. Tula: Izdatel’skii dom “Iasnaia Poliana,” 2012. 17-40.

2014

“Suvorov v “Voine i mire.” Tolstoi i mirovaia literatura. Papers from Conference at Iasnaia Poliana, August 2012. Tula: Izdatel’skii dom “Iasnaia Poliana,” 2014. 5-21.

2016

“Eshche raz o Tolstom i Gomere” [Tolstoy and Homer Again]. Tolstoi i mirovaia literatura. Papers from Conference at Iasnaia Poliana, August 2014. Tula: Izdatel’skii dom “Iasnaia Poliana,” 2016. 5-28.

2018

”Otvet L’va Nikolaevicha Tolstogo Isaie Berlinu” [Lev Tolstoy’s Response to Isaiah Berlin]. Tolstoi i mirovaia literatura. Papers from Conference at Iasnaia Poliana, August 2016. Tula: Izdatel’skii dom “Iasnaia Poliana,” 2018. 35-43.

8. Solicited Scholarly Reviews

1987

Edward Wasiolek, ed. Critical Essays on Tolstoy (Boston, 1986). Canadian Slavonic Papers 29, Nos. 2-3 (June-September 1987): 333-334.

1989

A. N. Wilson. Tolstoy (New York, 1988). Tolstoy Studies Journal 2 (1989): 73-74.

“Three on Courtship, Corpses, and Culture: Tolstoj, ‘Posle bala’—Zoshchenko, ‘Dama s cvetami’—E. Ginzburg, ‘Rai pod mikroskopom’.” Wiener Slawistischer  Almanakh 22 (1988): 7-24.  Tolstoy Studies Journal 2 (1989): 79-82.

Peter Ulf Møller. Postlude to The Kreutzer Sonata: Tolstoj and the Debate on Sexual Morality in Russian Literature in the 1890s (Leiden, 1988). Canadian-American Slavic Studies (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, 1989): 467-68.

1992

Andrew Baruch Wachtel. The Battle for Childhood: Creation of a Russian Myth (Stanford, California, 1990). Canadian Slavonic Papers 34, Nos. 1-2 (March-June 1992): 175-176.

Rimvydas Silbajoris. Tolstoy’s Aesthetics and his Art (Columbus, Ohio, 1991). Canadian Slavonic Papers 34, No. 3 (September 1992): 340-341.

1994

Daniel Rancour-Laferriére. Tolstoy’s Pierre Bezukhov: A Psychoanalytical  Study (London, 1993). Canadian-American Slavic Studies 28, Nos. 2-3 (Summer-Fall 1994): 288-289.

C. J. G. Turner. A Karenina Companion (Waterloo, Ontario, 1993). University of Toronto Quarterly 64, No. 1 (Winter 1994): 234-236.

1995

Carol Any. Boris Eikhenbaum: Voices of a Russian Formalist (Stanford, California, 1994). Slavic Review 24, No. 3 (Fall 1995): 736-737.

Joseph Frank. Dostoevsky. Vol. 4: The Miraculous Years (Princeton, New Jersey, 1995).  Books in Canada 24, No. 9 (December 1995): 28-30.

1996

Sona Stephan Hoisington, ed.  A Plot of Her Own: The Female Protagonist in Russian Literature (Evanston, Illinois, 1995).  Slavic and East European Journal 40, No.1 (Spring 1996): 157-159.

Andrew Baruch Wachtel. An Obsession with History: Russian Writers Confront the Past (Stanford, California, 1990).  Modern Philology 96.2 (November 1996): 267-271.

1997

Wayne Dowler. An Unnecessary Man: The Life of Apollon Grigoriev (Toronto, 1996). Books in Canada 26, No. 2 (March 1997): 2.

1998

Kennoske Nakamura. Chuvstvo  zhizni i smerti u Dostoevskogo (St.Petersburg, 1997). Russian Review 57, No. 4 (October 1998): 135-36.

1999

Natasha Sankovitch. Creating and Recovering Experience: Repetition in Tolstoy (Stanford, 1998). Slavic Review 58, No. 2 (Summer 1999): 501-502.

2002

Ivan Bunin. The Liberation of Tolstoy: A Tale of Two Writers. Translated, edited and with an introduction by Thomas Gaiton Marullo and Vladimir D. Khmelkov (Evanston, Illinois, 2001) Slavic Review 61, No. 2 (Summer 2002): 436- 438.

2003

Kare Johan Mjor.  Desire, Death, and Imitation: Narrative Patterns in the Late Tolstoy.  Bergen, Norway, 2002. Slavic and East European Journal 47.1 (Spring 2003): 118-120.

2006

Nancy K. Anderson. The Perverted Ideal in Dostoevsky’s The Devils (New York, 1997).  Canadian-American Slavic Studies 40, Nos. 2-3-4 (2006): 538-539.

2009

Gary Saul Morson. “Anna Karenina” in Our Time: Seeing More Wisely (New Haven: Yale UP, 2007).  Slavic and East European Journal 2.4 (Winter 2009):597-98.

Turgenev and Russian Culture: Essays to Honour Richard Peace.  Edited by Joe Andrew, Derek Offord and Robert Reid (Amsterdam and NYC: Rodolphi, 2008).  Slavic Review fall, 2009.

2010

Valeria Sobol. Febris Erotica: Lovesickness in the Russian Literary Imagination.  (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2009) Slavic Review vol. 69, no. 4 (Winter 2010): 1023-24.

2011

Anthony Briggs. Brief Lives: Leo Tolstoy (Hesperus Press, London, 2010). Slavonic and East European Review vol. 89, no.4 (2011): 709-10.

2013

Review.  Robert Reed and Joe Andrew, eds.  Aspects of Dostoevskii: Art, Ethics and Faith.  Amsterdam and New York: Rodolphi, 2012, xiii . 306 pp.  Canadian Slavonic Papers vol. LV, Nos. 1-2 (March-June, 2013): 280-282. 

2014

Review. Balasubramanian, Radha.  The Influence of India on Tolstoy and Tolstoy’s Influence on India: A Study of Reciprocal Receptions.  Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2013.  xv + 272 pp.  Russian Review 10 (2014): 622.

2015

Review. Deborah Martinsen, Cathy Popkin, and Irina Reyfman, eds.  Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Belknap.  Ars Rossica.  Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2014.  xvi + 336 pp.  Russian Review 74 (October 2015): 691-92.

2016

Review. Charlotte Alston, Tolstoy and His Disciples: The History of a Radical International Movement (I. B. Tauris, 2014, 309 pp.). Slavonic and East European Review 94.3 (July, 2016): 516-17.

2017

Review. Knapp, Liza.  Anna Karenina and Others: Tolstoy’s Labyrinth of Plots.  Madison, WI:  U of Wisconsin P, 2016. Slavic and East European Journal 61.3 (Fall 2017): 593-94.

2018

Review. Fusso, Susanne.  Editing Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy: Mikhail Katkov and the Great Russian Novel.  DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2017.  328 pp. Russian Review. 77 (April 2018): 294-95.

2020

Review. Medzhibovskaya, Inessa, ed. Tolstoy, Leo. On Life: A Critical Edition. Translated by Michael Denner and Inessa Medzhibovskaya. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL, 2019. Review. Medzhibovskaya, Inessa ed. Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from the Twenty-First Century. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL, 2019. Slavonic and East European Review 98.1 (January, 2020): 156-159.

2021

Review. Knapp, Liza. Leo Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions, 604. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2019. Review. Zorin, Andrei. Leo Tolstoy. Critical Lives. Reaktion Books, London, 2020. Slavonic and East European Review 99.1 (Jan. 2021): 160-162.

Review. Shneyder, Vadim. Russia’s Capitalist Realism: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020. 248 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-8101-4249-7. Russian Review 2 (2021): 315-16.

9. In Preparation or Accepted for Publication—Books

Editor, a volume of previously published English language essays on Tolstoy to be chosen by me, translated by Russian colleagues with supervision by my group, and published in Russian by the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2010.  Four articles of eleven prepared this year and almost ready, but status of book uncertain.  Cancelled.

A book project tentatively entitled Russian Soldiers Inside and Out, about how Russian soldiers imagine themselves and others imagine them. 

*A two volume anthology on war and Russian literature commissioned by Columbia University Press, to be completed December, 2022.  *Draft of first volume completed and submitted for review. Draft of second volume complete.

10. In Preparation or Accepted for Publication—Reviews, Articles, or Chapters in Books

A new translation of Turgenev’s play Month in the Country, in collaboration with Canadian playwright David French for Young Montreal Theatre, to be directed by Bill Glassco (now deceased). I prepared the translation (Spring, 2001).  Production cancelled due to lack of funding.

 “Russia’s Lockean Moment: The Example of General Alexander Suvorov.” 9500 words. Revise and resubmit to a refereed journal.

How Does War Change Us? Fedor Glinka’s Letters of a Russian Officer.  12,000 word first draft.

“Denis Davydov’s Truth in War and Peace.” 8000 words. Predrag Cicovacki, ed. A War and Peace in the series “Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature,” Oxford University Press.

“War and the Military.” 3000 words. Anna Berman, ed. Tolstoy in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2022. Upcoming, August, 2022.

* Review. Hodge, Thomas P. Hunting Nature: Ivan Turgenev and the Organic World.   Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 303 pp. upcoming, Slavic Review.

11. Publications and Lectures for the General Public

1996

“Jesus in Russia: An American Holy War,” directed by Elliott Halpern, reviewed by Donna Orwin, Books in Canada 25, No. 2 (March 1996): 16-17.

1997

“Musings of a Russophile.” Books in Canada 26, No. 5 (June 1997): 39-40.

2004

Organizer and Participant. Three lectures on Russian literature for the Canadian Friends of the Hermitage. Spring, 2004. My lecture, delivered February 10, 2004: “The Origins of Russian Psychological Prose.”

Editor and introduction. Tolstoy, Stories for Young People. New York: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. Fall, 2004

2007

Speaker, Opera Exchange on Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. February 3, 2007.

2008

”War and Translation,” Endpaper, The Globe and Mail, January 5, 2008.

Speaker, Opera Exchange on Janacek’s From the House of the Dead. February 9, 2008.

Speaker, Opera Exchange on Prokofiev’s War and Peace. October 18, 2008.

War and Peace.  Review of the 50 Greatest Books, The Globe and Mail, November 8, 2008.

Lecturer, Humanities for Humanity, “On Living and Dying in the World of Modern Officialdom; The Death of Ivan Ilych.” November 13, 2008.

Participant, Documentary film on Tolstoy included in The Adventures of the Young Indiana Jones, Vol. one. Directed by Sharon Wood and published by George Lucas, North American debut, 2008.

2010

Popcorn Panel.  Email blog for The National Post on The Last Station, January 25, 2010.

Lecture on Pushkin. Canadian Friends of the Hermitage, February 24, 2010.

Lecturer, Humanities for Humanity, “On Living and Dying in the World of Modern Officialdom; The Death of Ivan Ilych” March 11, 2010.

Interview, BBC, for an hour long television show on Tolstoy, Yasnaya Polyana, August 14, 2010. 

Interview with ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company), reporter Florence Spurling, on Tolstoy, 45 minutes, October 7, 2010.

2012

Interview with Michael Enright for CBC radio show on Tolstoy, January 16, 2012. 

Review, The Globe and Mail. Rosamund Bartlett’s Tolstoy. A Russian Life. February 11, 2012.

”Tolstoy or Dostoevsky?” Debate in online journal The Millions, April 23, 2012. http://www.themillions.com/2012/04/tolstoy-or-dostoevsky-8-experts-on-whos-greater.html.

Interview on Dostoevsky in “Etemaad” Newspaper, Tehran, Iran.  Around November 13, 2012.  PDF in Persian available on request.

Popcorn Panel.  Email blog for The National Post on the new film Anna Karenina, December 14, 2012.  http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/12/14/popcorn-panel-anna-karenina/

Interview with Josephine Baldassi for the Toronto Review of Books, January 22, 2012. 

2013

Interview with Konstantin Boulich about Tolstoy and Tolstoy On War for a weekly literary radio show called Russian BookWorld on Voice of Russia, an English language radio station based in Moscow. April 26, 2013; aired July, 2013.  See http://english.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/28742746/225157654. 

Panelist, Industry-Academia Collaboration session. International Innovation Conference, REV July 11, 2013, Great Hall, REV; Ron Eydt Village, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo.

Interview for Simply Charly, a website for about important historical figures.  Mounted March, 2013. See http://simplycharly.wpengine.com/people/leo-tolstoy/read/interviews/donna-orwin-on-leo-tolstoy/#.Um1njRCcvIU

2014

Lecture. “Why Tolstoy’s War Writing Does Not Grow Old.” Almae Matris Croaticae Alumni-Toronto (AMCA), University of Toronto Faculty Club, March 28, 2014.

Interview with Gary Bryson of ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company) on Tolstoy’s Pacificism.  Held at CBC studios, 205 Wellington St., August 26, 2014. Aired November 9, 2014 on ABC.  See http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/war-and-peace/5842602.

Interview with Globe and Mail dance critic Martha Schabas on the occasion of performance in Toronto of Anna Karenina by the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg.  See the Saturday, April 18^th column by Schabas. 

2016

Blurb about Anna Karenina adaptations on the website of the North American Tolstoy Society, September, 2016.

Letter to the Editor regarding languages in student international experience, Globe and Mail, November 15, 2016. 

2018

Interview on Simply Tolstoy with Tolstoy Studies Journal, May, 2018

2020

“A Twentieth Century Tolstoy?” Review of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad, translated by Robert and Elisabeth Chandler (New York Review Book, 2019). Law and Liberty, January 29, 2020. Approximately 7000 words.

Participation (with Andre Zorin of Oxford and Galina Alexeeva of Yasnaya Polyana and host former BBC diplomatic and Moscow correspondent Bridget Kendall) in BBC World Service radio program The Forum on War and Peace.  Recorded December 3, 2019; broadcast July 23, 2020.  See https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszjvn.

2021

Gonzalez Reading Group on War and Peace, December 6, 2021.  2 hours.