Ian Probstein
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Ian Probstein
New York, USA

Ian Probstein is a poet, scholar, and translator of poetry. He has authored, edited, and/or translated many books, including The River of Time: Time-Space, Language, and History in Avant-Garde, Modernist, and Contemporary Poetry (Boston, 2017); Complete annotated edition of T. S. Eliot’s Poetry and Plays (St. Petersburg, 2019); Charles Bernstein. Sign Under Test: Selected Poems and Essays (Moscow, 2020); Contemporary American Poetry in Russian from Black Mountain Poets to Language Poetry, co-editor with Vl. Feshchenko;Centuries Encircle me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, a bilingual edition. Translation, introduction, and commentary by Ian Probstein (Boston, 2022); Dmitry Strotsev. War and Peace. Selected poems translated into English (New York, 2025), etc.

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Maxim Matusevich's book
by Maxim Matusevich

Six Trains of No Return collects twelve short stories and novellas that examine immigrant sagas and dislocations.

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by Zinovy Zinik

When Clea returns to London with her new Russian husband, she is surprised to see him become even more eccentric.

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by Mark Budman

After a century of brooding and talking telepathically to his Mausoleum janitor from his glass coffin, Vladimir Lenin awakens—alive and bewildered in the modern world.

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by Naza Semoniff

A haunting dystopia some readers have called “the new 1984.” In a society where memory is rewritten and resistance is pre-approved, freedom isn’t restricted; it’s redefined. As systems evolve beyond human control and choice becomes a simulation, true defiance means refusing the script, even when the system already knows you will.

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