USA TODAY Review: **1/2 out of four Stars: Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson; Director: Joe Wright Rated R; Runtime: 2 hours, 10 minutes; Opens Friday in select cities The re-invented ...

The series that takes a look at books, plays and stories and how they work. John Yorke explores the themes at the heart of Tolstoy’s great novel Anna Karenina. Show more The series that takes a look ...

Anna and Kitty. Two lives. One of desperate passion that ends in tragedy, the other, an existence made real through love. Two destinies that interweave, giving rise to two, so very different stories, ...

Book of the day: Few novels in world literature have achieved the sweeping emotional and philosophical breadth of Anna Karenina, the 1878 masterpiece by Leo Tolstoy. Equal parts love story, social ...

Before they were soldiers, they were family. Before they were legends, they were heroes. Before there was a nation, there was a fight for freedom.

The fourth post in a series in which we ask what book or writer our contributors have returned to again and again. A few weeks ago, on an appropriately snowy Wednesday, my wife and I went to see the ...

The series that takes a look at books, plays and stories and how they work. John Yorke examines what lies at the heart of Tolstoy’s great novel Anna Karenina. ‘All happy families are alike; each ...

Anna is a young and elegant wife of Mr. Karenin, who is wealthy and old. She meets the handsome Count Vronsky. Anna and Vronsky fall in love with each other, and he comes to be with her in St.