I read Tolstoy’s “Master and Man” recently, and it seems to be sticking with me. I can’t get it out of my head as the winter continues. I was reading an interview in VICE with the woman who refused Marlon Brando’s Oscar, Sacheen Littlefeather, and the short story popped up again in an unexpected way. She mentions sleeping inside a horse during a snowstorm to avoid the cold. It crossed my mind that Tolstoy’s characters would have both survived, had they known to do this.

Anyhow, here’s an article from The Guardian a few years back that covers “Master and Man.”