A new book of poems by Sergei Shabalin, the New York poet, journalist, and essayist. His texts present a remarkable combination of surface simplicity and clarity (at the level of syntax and vocabulary, veering now toward the colloquial, now toward the archetypal) with a stratification of meanings, a doubling of perspectives, a rapid shift of optics before the reader has quite had time to grow accustomed. This produces an effect of estrangement: a vision of the world as an integral whole, inaccessible to the eye in its essence, blurred in the impressionist manner in its details, yet striking in its broader sweep.
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.
The first bilingual collection of Ukrainian verse by Borys Khersonsky. In these poems, heaven is often the setting: Jews who perished during pogroms and in the Holocaust continue with their daily routines, whereas on earth, displacement has become a constant, and collective memory has been cleansed of the Jewish past.
A collection of very short stories. In Russian.
Six Trains of No Return collects twelve short stories and novellas that examine immigrant sagas and dislocations.
