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The article focuses upon the beginning of a new diplomatic relationship between the US and the Soviet Union in the year 1933, and the end to the break of ties after the October Revolution of 1917. Topics include the Spring Festival Ball of 1935; the execution of Nikolai Bukharin, a Bolshevik revolutionary and a soviet politician, for planning the assassinations of both Stalin and Lenin, and the excerpts from The Master and Margarita, a novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov.

The article focuses on mass grief for Joseph Stalin cannot be constrained by police blockades and unprecedented crowds has had force enough to bend street lights to ludicrous angles and overturn vehicles. It mentions frantic Kholodilin enters a nearby building, finds a working telephone and calls for police assistance. It also mentions infiltrated Mandelstam's literary coterie or somebody had betrayed him, that to deny authorship would be pointless.

The article focuses on novel "Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann on disciplined ascetic and much lauded writer of fiction, who, in his early fifties, falls victim to a malaise. It mentions need to wished to explore the idea of loss of dignity through passion and Nietzschean dichotomy between Apolline order and Dionysian bacchanal. It also mentions misinterpreted Mann's book as expressing anti-gay sentiments and story of personal liberation.

The article focuses on experience of essayist Charles Lamb of seeing the sea and mentions that Lamb was unimpressed by cliffs categories as artless. Topics discussed include biblical scholar Robert Alter who tells context in which wisdom means something akin to craft, prayer in the collection places emphasis on jaws of death and Book of Revelation composed by prophet.