Workers at Malcolm Gladwell's podcast company Pushkin Industries are sending a clear message to their employer: We are ready to strike.

Pushkin was an impulsive man and fought many duels. Indeed, his fatal duel was the second time he had challenged Georges d’Anthès, a French officer in the Russian Guard, for besmirching his honor.

Malcolm Gladwell is laying off staffers from Pushkin Industries, his podcasting studio, a year after tearfully pleading with Americans to return to the office.

In one of the most tragic and devastating accidents in Soviet military history, the Soviet Navy lost 16 admirals in a single event. This heartbreaking loss occurred on July 22, 1956, when a Tu-104 ...

Pushkin stayed clear of it despite some secret sympathies for the conspirators. But he has to cope with the roaming eye of the tsar, ever on the lookout for domestic enemies, particularly among the ...

In practice, Pushkin had to clear every piece of writing with the tsar and endure the attentions of Count Alexander Benckendorff, the founder of Russia’s secret police.

And Pushkin's family background is fascinating (his great-great-grandfather on his mother's side was an African slave, purchased for Peter the Great, whose favourite he became).

A literary jaunt through the land of Pushkin and Tolstoy takes Sara Wheeler to such far corners of Russia as a restaurant in the frozen northeast where the teaspoons have holes to discourage thieves.