Poet, essayist. Emigrated from the USSR in 1989. Author of five books of poetry (latest collection: Bezotchestvo, Drukarsky Dvir Olega Fedorova, Kiev, 2022). Member of the editorial board of Novy Zhurnal and Interpoesia (New York, USA). Marina studied in Italy and lived in Luxembourg. Currently, she resides in Nevada, where she teaches Italian language and culture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Boris Khersonsky and Ludmila Khersonsky write poetry that speaks to the crisis of our time, when refugees run from bombardments, and nonstop propaganda flows from TV. The setting is Ukraine at the start of the twenty-first century, but it is eerily recognizable anywhere.
A new book of poems by New York poet and essayist Sergei Shabalin. In Russian.
Sailor, artist, lawyer, and writer, Dmitri Bystrolyotov was one of a team of Soviet spies operating in the West between the World Wars. He seduced women to learn great secrets of foreign states, but was then arrested and tortured in the Gulag, where he began to document the crimes against humanity of the regime he had served.
This book features biographies of the author’s family members, detailing with the effect of the war on their lives.