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Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

The Tragic Tale of the Physicist Lev Shtrum

By Alexandra Popoff and Tatiana Dettmer | May 29, 2019

Svetlana Alexievich in Praise<br> of Maxim Osipov

Svetlana Alexievich in Praise
of Maxim Osipov

On the Russian Doctor Who Treats His Characters Like His Patients

By Svetlana Alexievich | April 9, 2019

I Was Almost Svetlana Alexievich's Translator

I Was Almost Svetlana Alexievich's Translator

Laura Esther Wolfson Falling Short of Literary Fame

By Laura Esther Wolfson | November 5, 2018

Life Got You Down? Time to Read <em>The Master and Margarita</em>

Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita

Or, How to Be Happy With Russian Literature

By Viv Groskop | October 16, 2018

Sometimes It's Easier to Talk About Books Than Say 'I Love You'

Sometimes It's Easier to Talk About Books Than Say 'I Love You'

Diane Shipley on Staying in Her Father's Good Books

By Diane Shipley | August 10, 2018

1921 · 1946 · 1984 · 2018 A Genealogy of the Totalitarian Novel

1921 · 1946 · 1984 · 2018 A Genealogy of the Totalitarian Novel

What Yevgeny Zamyatin's We Says About Us

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 7, 2018

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The Story Collector, or, How Not to Write a Novel

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Everything You Think You Know About Chekhov is Wrong

By Boris Fishman | July 23, 2018

Robert Gottlieb on a Neglected Russian Classic

By Robert Gottlieb | May 31, 2018

Two Stories

Two Stories

Tatyana Tolstaya, Trans. by Anya Migdal

By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 5, 2018

"Passing Through"

Tatyana Tolstaya, Trans. by Anya Migdal

By Lit Hub Excerpts | March 20, 2018

Growing Up with Classic Russian Literature in Rural South India

Growing Up with Classic Russian Literature in Rural South India

Deepa Bhasthi on Her Grandfather's Collection of Cheap Soviet-Era Editions

By Deepa Bhasthi | February 28, 2018

Elif Batuman on Fictionalizing Her Life, and Learning to Fact Check

Elif Batuman on Fictionalizing Her Life, and Learning to Fact Check

In Conversation with the Author of The Idiot

By Dylan Foley | March 21, 2017

Who Should Star in the New Movie Version of <em>The Master and Margarita</em>?

Who Should Star in the New Movie Version of The Master and Margarita?

It's Not Easy to Find a Charismatic Giant Talking Cat

By Emily Temple | February 15, 2017

The New Year's Tree

The New Year's Tree

Mikhail Zoshchenko, translated by Ross Ufberg

By Lit Hub Excerpts | December 12, 2016

On Finding a Real Photograph of My Fictional Heroine

On Finding a Real Photograph of My Fictional Heroine

Alison Anderson Discovers Anton Chekhov's Summer Guests

By Alison Anderson | June 15, 2016

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