“Very original. A monumental work of vibrant imagination.” —Moris Farhi (1935-2019), Turkish-British author, vice-president of International PEN
“This rich…novel works on many levels, and it is impossible to label it, to define it by genre. It is both a love story, a philosophical novel, a historical novel, a surreal fable, a meditation on the absurdity of extremism, an allegory of our condition, and a mystery. In a nutshell, it is an original and beautiful novel.” —Dmitry Borshch
NL Herzenberg is a pen name of Nina Kossman.
The new poetry collection from Wayne Pernu, one of the finest poets writing in English today. This is one of those rare collections that calls to mind the great masters—Donne, Keats, Yeats.
Comedy and tragedy collide in stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience
Boris Khersonsky and Ludmila Khersonsky write poetry that speaks to the crisis of our time, when refugees run from bombardments, and nonstop propaganda flows from TV. The setting is Ukraine at the start of the twenty-first century, but it is eerily recognizable anywhere.
A new book of poems by New York poet and essayist Sergei Shabalin. In Russian.
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.