Coming home …

… Howard Jacobson: 'Russia, My Homeland' – Tablet Magazine. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

My own contribution to the task of shaking the Urals from our shoes was preferring Tolstoy to Dostoevsky and once in a while putting in a word for Turgenev above them both. But weren’t there twinges of recognition whichever of them I read? Yes. No. Yes.