Basil Lvoff
Author Profiles

About the Author:

Basil Lvoff
Basil Lvoff
New York, USA

Basil Lvoff is a writer, translator of poetry, and a literary theorist. He grew up in Moscow and moved to New York in his early twenties. He has taught Russian language, literature, and history at Columbia University, Hunter College, and New York University. His poems and essays appeared in Novy Mir, Zvezda, and Interpoezia among others, as well as in The New Review, which has recently published his stand-up tragedy devoted to the current war and the future of Russia: Vasily Lvov – That’s What They Call Me.

Bookshelf
Romm
by Michael Romm

This book features biographies of the author’s family members, detailing the effect on their lives.

book Queen
by Borys Khersonsky. Svetlana Lavochkina and Oksana Rosenblum, translators

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.

Iossel book
by Mikhail Iossel

The author has found a perfect syntactical solution to the opposition of past and present in this groundbreaking collection of one-sentence stories: everything is simultaneous, breathless, in a dizzying spin of memory and imagination.

wq4q49-front-shortedge-384
by Yelena Matusevich

A collection of very short stories. In Russian.

 

Videos
No data was found