Friday, May 31 2013
Nikolai Leskov Gets His Due in This New Collection, ‘The Enchanted Wanderer’
Translating Leskov's delightfully 'slippery ventriloquism' is the latest project of indefatigable translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose renderings of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky have effectively become the new standards over the past two decades.
Tuesday, January 4 2011
Inna Zhelannaya: Cocoon
Cocoon, with its thread-artwork and the title that signifies concentration and enclosure, seems to be casting its references back a few years to Bjork's Vespertine.
Monday, July 26 2010
A Surgeon Cool with a Handgun and a Scalpel
A surgeon doing charity work to make up for the sins of his violent past changes his priorities after learning that his new wife married him for an unfathomable reason.
Thursday, April 8 2010
The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight by Gina Ochsner
Gina Ochsner engages with the diversity of post-Soviet Russia by taking a microcosm of the country's demographic and chronicling its travails.
Friday, March 19 2010
Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia edited by Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker
This collection of post-Soviet short stories from Russian authors born in the waning days of the once-powerful empire raises some important questions. Namely, what is the New Russia?
Wednesday, March 4 2009
‘Sex and the City,’ but which city? Russian TV networks copy shows from U.S.
Friday, February 6 2009
Mumiy Troll: Comrade Ambassador
Proof that ex-punks from Vladivostok are as capable of creating mainstream-indie "rockapops" as anyone else anywhere on the planet.
Thursday, July 24 2008
¡Forward, Russia!: Life Processes
¡Forward, Russia! should be commended for asking questions of themselves when they could have sat pretty and cemented their position as dance-punk heroes.
Monday, July 7 2008
The Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget by
This guide will help you pinch your pennies along the journey so you can splash out when it counts.
