“Mick Jagger was reading this book called The Master Margarita by Bulgakov. And if you've read The Master Margarita, it opens with two Russian intellectuals…”
Russ Roberts, Host on EconTalkThe Death of Reading (with James Marriott) 9/21/26
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov · 2004
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