The Count and the Kamikaze

Brief mentions of a good novel and a good movie

I am almost finished reading A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. It’s a book about a Russian aristocrat. As the novel opens, he has been living in The Metropole, a hotel of pre-revolutionary splendor adjacent to the Kremlin and the Bolshoi. The only reason he hasn’t been shot by the Bolsheviks, we learn late in the novel, is that a revolutionary pamph…