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I Am From Dzerzhinsk
Tatyana Movshevich recalls growing up in chemical-ravaged Dzerzhinsk, Russia, and the creative wasteland that exists there.
Book Review: Twilight of the Eastern Gods by Ismail Kadare
Published for the first time in English, Ismail Kadare’s exploration of writing, realism and censorship moves between the everyday and mythic in Soviet Moscow.
Book Review: The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis
Judgement, morality, and the difference between right and wrong take centre stage in this cerebral thriller.
Group Dynamics: World Cup Profiles, vol. iv
As England prepare to face Italy, Teddy Cutler brings the final edition of his World Cup group analyses.
The Fiction of Revolution
The West is right in condemning Russia for breaching Ukraine’s sovereignty, says Katarina Nordin. But we must not get too caught up in the fiction of revolution.
No Pasarán: How Pussy Riot Made A Slogan Their Own
Amid the release of two members of Pussy Riot, Charlotte Fereday looks at the Russian protest band’s adoption of one of the essential mantras of the Spanish Civil War.
Unfamiliar Country
American writer Zachary Watterson gives his advice on the personal essay, and recounts a memorable visit to the Eastern Bloc.
The Master and Margarita at the Barbican Theatre
To read, The Master and Margarita is a stunning yet at times bewildering novel. The very fact that it has ever been adapted for the stage is worthy of applause. ...
Nonfiction: Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room by Geoff Dyer
What really changes our way of appreciating and consuming culture, however, is the concept of time, which has changed over the decades. On one end there’s “Tarkovsky-time”, and on the ...
Litro #99: Russia, Magazine | Archives
Litro #99: Russia
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Fishing for Crab in Arctic Russia by Adam Butler
It works like this: During crab season, October until March, boats go out every day (bearing in mind that ‘day’, during many of these months, is a fairly arbitrary concept ...
Forty Rubles by Peter Hajinian
Your Honour: This is my confession, not of murder, but of the events that led to the death of Vladimir Gargarovich Karpuk. Though I was present, I can attest it ...
Russian Strays by William Falo
“It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts – more clearly than in ...
Ipatiev House by Louise Phillips
Butka: A priest visits the village once a month to perform the Sacred Mysteries. On the first Sunday in March he is very late for a baptism. It gets stuffy ...
Free by Polina Klyukina
The Simferopol train and dusty wool blankets. The train conductor with her tangled black locks and her bowing-and-scraping “shh” in the phrase “Hush now, girls, hush now;” the clinking of ...