Julia Trubikhina-Kunina has produced a fine new volume of translations of Vladimir Aristov’s poetry for Ugly Duckling Presse, a small…
July/August 2017 – Russia
Teffi. It could be a child’s beloved rubbery chewing gum. Or maybe a name given to some floppy-haired pet. It…
A diarist in late nineteenth-century Russia, a translator in modern-day France and a London publisher: three women connected across time…
“The glum, commonplace act of love … always brought to my mind our electoral system. After enduring interminable torrents of…
The twentieth century spawned two Russian literatures: one living within the confines of the USSR, the other beyond the Iron…
“On Monday the thirteenth of May in the year 1876 … numerous individuals in Moscow’s Alexander Gardens unexpectedly found themselves…