News at Eleven: [Robert] Conquest is still, however,

a man of contradictions. With The Great Terror, published in 1968, he became the conscience of an era, a historian denouncing Stalinism when communism was trendy with the left in the West. His new book collects scabrous and salacious limericks.

His advice to young poets is unconventional: "Write under a pseudonym, and pretend it's a translation from the Portuguese."

Not a serious poet? Think again. He's just completed a poem that may prove to be among his greatest. His 200-line reflection, forthcoming this fall in the British magazine Standpoint, opens:

Into one's ninetieth year.

from Stanford Report: Stanford legend Robert Conquest: new books at 93 for the historian and poet

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