“Nina Kossman is a natural at all sub-genres of short prose: а diary entry, a mystical novella, an autobiographical note, a psychological sketch. She has good taste, a sober view of herself and others, and an innate gift for holding the reader’s attention.”
— Dmitry Bykov
“Monkey’s Defense” is a collection of short stories and parables by Nina Kossman, bilingual author of ten books of poetry and prose, compiler of the anthology “Gods and Mortals” (Oxford University Press), artist, playwright, and translator of Tsvetaeva’s poems into English.
This collection focuses on the war between Russia and Ukraine as seen by Russophone poets from all over the world.
This collection includes poems written in 2020-2023. (Russian edition)
“The Lingering Twilight” (“Сумерки”) is Marina Eskin’s fifth book of poems. (Russian edition)
Launched in 2012, “Four Centuries” is an international electronic magazine of Russian poetry in translation.
A collection of moving, often funny vignettes about a childhood spent in the Soviet Union.
“Vivid picture of life behind the Iron Curtain.” —Booklist
“This unique book will serve to promote discussions of freedom.” —School Library Journal
A book of poems by Maria Galina, put together and completed exactly one day before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is Galina’s seventh book of poems. With translations by Anna Halberstadt and Ainsley Morse.