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The murder of Leo Tolstoy:
A forensic investigation

By Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman is a writer in San Francisco. This is her first article for _Harper’s Magazine_.

The International Tolstoy Conference lasts four days and is held on the grounds of Yasnaya Polyana, the estate where Tolstoy was born, lived most of his life, wrote War and Peace _and _Anna Karenina, and is buried.

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SEE ALSO: Authors, Russian; Congresses; Criticism and interpretation; Death and burial; Batuman NV, Elif; Homes and haunts; Travel—Russia; Tolstoy, Leo, graf
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December 2009

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPERFRAUD
Why the Hudson River Will Never Run Clean
By David Gargill

THE MASTER OF SPIN BOLDAK
Undercover with Afghanistan’s Drug-Trafficking Border Police
By Matthieu Aikins

MERMAID FEVER
A story by Steven Millhauser

UNDERSTANDING OBAMACARE
By Luke Mitchell

Also: Dave Hickey and Wendell Berry

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