Salt lick: can #progressive #art ever be rural?
#Tolstoy’s second greatest novel, Anna Karenina, might have been called, in the vein of War and Peace, #City and #Country. While Anna’s urbane tragedy unfolds, necessarily, in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Tolstoy’s sympathies, as they were in life, are indubitably sylvan. The passage I return to most often is the mowing of Mashkin Hill, where the writer’s doppelgänger joins the peasants for a day of stubble-tromping, sunshine work. His savvy city brother, who is staying with