Gary Saul Morson is an American literary critic and Slavist. He is particularly known for his scholarly work on the great Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. He is Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University.
Books in order of publication:
1981 – The Boundaries of Genre: Dostoevsky’s Diary of a Writer and the Traditions of Literary Utopia (University of Texas Press)
1986 – Bakhtin, Essays, and Dialogues on His Work (University of Chicago Press)
1986 – Literature and History: Theoretical Problems and Russian Case Studies (Stanford University Press)
1987 – Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in War and Peace (Stanford University Press)
1989 – Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges (Northwestern University Press)
1990 – Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics (with Caryl Emerson, Stanford University Press)
1994 – Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time (Yale University Press)
1995 – Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert Louis Jackson (Northwestern University Press)
2000 – And Quiet Flows the Vodka, or When Pushkin Comes to Shove (Northwestern University Press)
2007 – Anna Karenina in Our Time: Seeing More Wisely (Yale University Press)
2011 – The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture (Yale University Press)
2012 – The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel (Stanford University Press)
2013 – Prosaics and Other Provocations: Empathy, Open Time, and the Novel (Academic Studies Press)
2015 – The Fabulous Future? America and the World in 2040 (with Morton Schapiro, Northwestern University Press)
2017 – Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn From the Humanities (with Morton Schapiro, Princeton University Press)
2023 – Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter (Harvard University Press)
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