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Mr. Morson, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Northwestern University, is the author of “Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

The writer’s latest book is “Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957.”

From New York Times • May 15, 2020

Mr. Landrieu wrote a book titled “Strangers in Their Own Land: A White Southerner Confronts History” about his thought process regarding the removal of the statues.

From Washington Times • Mar. 30, 2018

A version of this article appears in print on April 7, 2014, on page A1 of the with the headline: Facing His Torturer as Spain Confronts Its Past.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2014

The river seeking for the sea Confronts the dam and precipice, Yet knows it cannot fail or miss; You will be what you will to be!

From Custer, and Other Poems. by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler