Yevsey Tseytlin
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Yevsey Tseytlin
Omsk, USSR / Chicago, USA

Evsey Tseytlin (born in Omsk, 1948) is an essayist, prose writer, literary critic, cultural critic, and editor. He is the author of essays, literary criticism, monographs, stories, and novels about artists and writers. His books, in Russian, include “Long Conversations While Waiting for a Happy Death” (1996; 2001, 2009; “Rowohlt” in German, 2000; and in Lithuanian, in 1997), “Writer in the Provinces” (Moscow, “Soviet Writer,” 1990), “Voice and Echo” (1989), “Milestones of Memory” (with Lev Anninsky, 1987), “On the Way to Man” (1986), “On What Remains” (1985), “Long Echo” (1985; 1989, in Lithuanian), “The Light Does Not Go Out” (1984), “To Live and Believe…” (1983), “Vsevolod Ivanov” (1983), “How Many Roads the Armored Train No. 14-69” (1982), “So What’s Tomorrow…?” (1982), “Always and Today…” (1980), and “Conversations on the Road” (1977). Since 1968, his work has been published in a wde spectrum of literary and art magazines. He compiled four collections of prose by Russian and foreign writers. He was editor-in-chief of the almanac “Jewish Museum” (Vilnius). Since 1996, he has lived in the US, editing “Shalom,” a monhtly magazine published in Chicago.

Bookshelf
100 pms war
by Julia Nemirovskaya, editor

This excellent anthology, compiled and edited by Julia Nemirovskaya, showcases poems by Russian (and Russian-speaking) poets who express their absolute rejection of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

DesyatyjKrug
by David Gay

The documentary novel “The Tenth Circle” tells the story of the life, struggle, and destruction of the Minsk ghetto, one of the largest in the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II. (Russian edition)

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by Charles Whittaker

Selected poems of Charles Whittaker.

1. cover for EWLF Sept. 11 2024. FINAL BOOK_cover Opravdanie martyshki (1)
by Nina Kossman

“Monkey’s Defense” is a collection of short stories and parables by Nina Kossman, bilingual author of several books of poetry and prose and translator of Marina Tsvetaeva’s poems into English.

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