It has been 60 years since David Lean made one of his masterpieces, and the film was controversial for many years, thanks to the fact that it was based on a banned book. There are few filmmakers as ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA officials had rave reviews for Boris Pasternak's classic Russian novel "Doctor Zhivago" - not for its literary merit but as a propaganda weapon in the Cold War, the ...

MOSCOW -- When Sergio D'Angelo arrived in Moscow this month to promote his new book -- "The Pasternak Case: Memoirs of a Witness" -- the sprightly 85-year-old Italian was immediately greeted with his ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

On May 20, 1956, two men took the suburban electric train from Moscow's Kiev station to the village of Peredelkino, a thirty-minute ride southwest of the city. It was a blue-sky Sunday morning. Spring ...

“The Zhivago Affair: The CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book” by Peter Finn and Petra Couvee (Pantheon, 352 pages, $26.95) The book came in on two rolls of microfilm – an unusual way to submit a ...

In their new book, Peter Finn and Petra Couvee explain the fraught history behind the Russian novel, Doctor Zhivago. And they tell the story of... A Writer Who Defied The System In 'The Zhivago Affair ...

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (558 pp.)—Boris Pasternak—Pantheon ($5). Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane: I shall descend into my grave. And on the third day rise again. And, even as rafts float down a river, So ...

A scene from the 1965 film Doctor Zhivago, based on Boris Pasternak's epic novel. The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.