LARA: THE UNTOLD STORY AND THE INSPIRATION FOR ’DOCTOR ZHIVAGO’ By Anna Pasternak Ecco, $27.99, 310 pages, illustrated Sometimes when you read a novel, you just know that the love story at its ...

There is no more enduring Russian love story than that of writer Boris Pasternak and the woman who was the model for Lara, the radiant heroine of Doctor Zhivago. Except that now it seems that the ...

Lara chronicles the horrifically steep costs for Olga Ivinskaya, Boris Pasternak's mistress, muse, and model for Yuri Zhivago's lover in Doctor Zhivago (alluringly played by Julie Christie in ...

Anna Pasternak is suing US novelist Lara Prescott over claims she stole important parts of a book she wrote about her Russian poet uncle's iconic novel - Dr Zhivago - from her own biography.

‘Doctor Zhivago,’ the 1965 epic romance starring Julie Christie as Lara and Omar Sharif as Yuri, was based on the Boris Pasternak novel. Photo: Everett Collection ...

It was in 1935 that Boris Pasternak, then aged 45, first spoke of his intent to write an epic Russian novel.

Lara Prescott’s ambitious debut novel, “ The Secrets We Kept,” arrives with a boatload of preemptive, promotional fanfare. What nudges hype aside — as usual — is taste.

Boris Pasternak was born 124 years ago on this day. In honor of his birthday, here is Irving Howe's appraisal of the unique genius of Pasternak's best-known work, Doctor Zhivago.

Lara Prescott talks to MPR News host Kerri Miller on Tuesday morning about her debut novel, “The Secrets We Kept.” During the Cold War, the book “Dr. Zhivago” by Boris Pasternak was banned ...

The daughter of the Russian woman who inspired the character of Lara in “Doctor Zhivago” angrily denied Friday that her mother informed on author Boris Pasternak to the communist government. A ...

What price love? In Lara, Anna Pasternak chronicles her famous great-uncle Boris's relationship with his mistress, Olga Ivinskaya — whose connection with the author landed her in the gulags.