The latest book from the Russian-born bilingual Londoner, Zinovy Zinik, is consciously labelled “A Gothic Novel”; and it adopts and…
July/August 2017 – Russia
At London Book Fair in March this year I met a charismatic and courageous young Russian author and literary critic…
I first came to Russian literature, as so many native English-speakers have, as a young person – finding myself astounded…
Can you remember your first time? Mine was with Dr Zhivago. I was fifteen, seduced into reading my first Russian…
William Bickford patented the safety fuse in 1831: the gunpowder was sealed inside a length of rope, which allowed the…
The Underground by Hamid Ismailov Translated from the Russian by Carol Ermakova Published by Restless Books 2015 Every so often…