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.

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by Tsipi Keller

Solitary Pleasures is a collection of short stories by Tsipi Keller.

1. Dislocation
by Julia Nemirovskaya and Anna Krushelnitskaya, editors

This collection focuses on the war between Russia and Ukraine as seen by Russophone poets from all over the world.

700x500 Picture Fiour Centuries
by Ilya Perelmuter (editor)

Launched in 2012, “Four Centuries” is an international electronic magazine of Russian poetry in translation.

Videos
Three Questions. A Documentary by Vita Shtivelman
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Poetry Reading in Honor of Brodsky’s 81st Birthday
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