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Essays

Essays

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Gasan Guseinov. Shakespeare’s School of Revenge, or “Hamlet Within”

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Vadim Olshevsky. On the Role of the Ashtray in the Books of J. D. Salinger

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Grigori Dashevsky on Vasily Grossman’s “Life and Fate”

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Andrey Gritsman. A Century-Long Line

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Maxim Matusevich. The Fear

Alexander Ilichevsky on Kafka

Alexander Ilichevsky on Kafka

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Marat Baskin on Sholem-Yankev Broide

Basil Lvoff on Russian Culture One Year into the War. Pushkin of tanks by Radik Shvarts

Basil Lvoff on Russian Culture One Year into the War

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Aleksander Melikhov on Chekhov

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Andrey Gritsman оn Bilingual Poetry and Self-Translation

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Galina Itskovich. Gifts of Matriarchy

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Robert Chandler on Anna Razumnaya’s “Under the Sign of Contradiction” and “The Foreign Agent”

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Zinovy Zinik. Quills and Bayonets, Tanks and Verses

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Lev Revutsky. Reflections at a Back Door of Russian History

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Alexander Veytsman. May 9th: Ideology as Nostalgia

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Anders Kreuger. The Continental Unconscious

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Alta Ifland. Putin, American Intellectuals, and Specters of Marx

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Olga Stein on Tomasz Kizny’s “Gulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration Camps”

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Gavriil Belyak. Back to the Myth

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Gasan Guseinov. New Conversations in the Realm of the Dead

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Katia Baghai and Victor Enyutin. The Artist as an Unwitting Prophet of the Apocalypse

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Lev Revutsky. Economic Notes

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Ilya Perelmuter’s Review of “The Voice of My Life…” In Memory of Eugene Dubnov

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Alta Ifland. “I Identify as:” the Origins of an American Ideology

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David Stromberg on Historical Consciousness

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Olga Bugoslavskaya on Viktor Remizov’s novel “Permafrost”

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Edward Farrell. States Without Legs: Slezkine’s “The House of Government”

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Michael Simms. Civilization and Her Discontents

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Valery Bochkov. Leo and the Rest of Them

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Olga Stein on “Summer in Baden-Baden” by Leonid Tsypkin. Loving and Hating Dostoyevsky

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Olga Stein on Tatyana Tolstaya’s novel “The Slynx”. After the “Blast,” Future Life is Backward

Bookshelf

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.

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Monkey’s Defense

by Nina Kossman

“Monkey’s Defense” is a collection of short stories and parables by Nina Kossman.

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Digitized Smoke. Poems

by Boris Kokotov

This collection includes poems written in 2020-2023. (Russian edition)

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The Lingering Twilight. Poems

by Marina Eskin (Eskina)

“The Lingering Twilight” (“Сумерки”) is Marina Eskin’s fifth book of poems. (Russian edition)

Videos

Three Questions. A Documentary by Vita Shtivelman

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Poetry Reading in Honor of Brodsky’s 81st Birthday

Length: 1:35:40