New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005, edited by Edward E. Ericson, Jr. and Daniel J. Mahoney (ISI Books, $30).Compiled with the cooperation of both [Alexander] Solzhenitsyn and his three sons, it provides a far more textured picture of the writer as an unrelenting artist (he began to compose poetry again in his last years); a flexible and theologically minded philosopher (more than worthy of his Templeton Prize); an often daring stylist; and a political and nationalist "ideologue" only in the eyes of predisposed critics. (Solzhenitsyn specifically rejected a blood-based, ethnic criterion for being "Russian.")
from Philadelphia Inquirer: Truth-telling Solzhenitsyn remained great to the end
also BBC News: Solzhenitsyn: A tortured patriot
also: CBS News: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, R.I.P.
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