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Monica Macansantos on Finding Her Voice and Reuniting with Her Father Through Used Books

Monica Macansantos on Finding Her Voice and Reuniting with Her Father Through Used Books

The Author of “Returning to My Father’s Kitchen” Recalls Visiting Book Markets in the Philippines

By Monica Macansantos | May 15, 2025

How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of <em>War and Peace</em> Helped Me Write a Novel

How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of War and Peace Helped Me Write a Novel

Elyse Durham on Sergei Bondarchuk’s Seven-Hour Cinematic Classic

By Elyse Durham | February 19, 2025

Footnotes All the Way Down: How Russian Poetry Mines the Past to Reveal the Present

Footnotes All the Way Down: How Russian Poetry Mines the Past to Reveal the Present

Forrest Gander Remembers Two Innovative Moscow Poets, Nina Iskrenko and Alexander Yeremenko

By Forrest Gander | October 1, 2024

Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today

Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today

Phillip Metres on Political Literature, Classical Forms, and What Outsiders Get Wrong About Russian Poetry

By Philip Metres | October 10, 2023

The Unique Challenges of Translating <em>The Brothers Karamazov</em> Into English

The Unique Challenges of Translating The Brothers Karamazov Into English

Michael R. Katz on Creating the First New Translation of Dostoevsky’s Novel in Two Decades

By Michael R. Katz | July 21, 2023

The Master, Margarita, and I: Paul Goldberg on the Third Rail of the Russian Classic

The Master, Margarita, and I: Paul Goldberg on the Third Rail of the Russian Classic

“Our relationship has required much maintenance and has not been harmonious.”

By Paul Goldberg | June 6, 2023

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Why Turgenev Remains One of the Most Important Russian Writers (And Why You Should Read the Constance Garnett Translation)

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By Bob Blaisdell | December 9, 2022

Dear Vladimir Putin: If You’ve Read Dostoevsky, You’ve Tragically Misunderstood Him

By Austin Ratner | October 20, 2022

On the Richness of Isaac Babel’s Odessa

On the Richness of Isaac Babel’s Odessa

Read Boris Dralyuk’s New Translation of “Lyubka the Cossack”

By Isaac Babel | September 27, 2022

The Unnoticed Generation: How Russian Writers in Paris Grappled With the Complexities of Life Between the Wars

The Unnoticed Generation: How Russian Writers in Paris Grappled With the Complexities of Life Between the Wars

Bryan Karetnyk on Translating the Work of Yuri Felsen

By Bryan Karetnyk | June 27, 2022

How the Russian and Ukrainian Languages Intersect in Eugene Vodolazkin’s <em>Brisbane</em>

How the Russian and Ukrainian Languages Intersect in Eugene Vodolazkin’s Brisbane

Marian Schwartz on the Current State (and Future) of Russian Literature in Translation

By Marian Schwartz | April 29, 2022

Russian Books That Outlived the Censors: A Reading List

Russian Books That Outlived the Censors: A Reading List

Elena Gorokhova on Doctor Zhivago, Nabokov, and More

By Elena Gorokhova | March 28, 2022

Why I Walked Away From <em>War and Peace</em>... Forever

Why I Walked Away From War and Peace... Forever

John Maher on Lost Love, Broken Hearts, and Tolstoy

By John Maher | September 11, 2020

On the Experimental Realism of an Eccentric Russian Anglophile

On the Experimental Realism of an Eccentric Russian Anglophile

For Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Strangeness Was a
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By Caryl Emerson | August 31, 2020

What the Great Russian Writers Didn't Get About the Criminal Mind

What the Great Russian Writers Didn't Get About the Criminal Mind

Varlam Shamalov Served 15 Years in a Soviet Labor Camp

By Varlam Shalamov | February 3, 2020

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