Pushkin Press has issued a new edition of 'Red Cavalry,' Isaac Babel's Russian short stories, originally published in 1926 paint a unique picture of time and place.
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Book Review: ‘The Librarian’ by Mikhail Elizarov
'The Librarian' reads like cold fire, full of Russian stoicism, honor, and intense formality, but the rhythm of the words is hypnotic.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Subtly Worded’ – Short Stories by Teffi from Pushkin Press
The Russian writer Teffi, whose real name was Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya, enjoyed great popularity throughout the first half of the 20th century as she chronicled life in Russia before and after the Revolution and then as an emigre in Paris. But her work has faded into relative obscurity since. I …
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Diary of a Madman’ starring Geoffrey Rush
Pushed over the edge, Gogol's antihero descends into obsessions and decides he is the King of Spain.
Read More »Book Review: Brief Lives: Leo Tolstoy by Anthony Briggs
Leo Tolstoy biography provides more context and analysis of writer's life and work than its size might suggest.
Read More »Book Review: Collected Stories by Isaac Babel
Isaac Babel: a look at the work of a significant Russian fiction writer of the early twentieth century
Read More »Book Review: Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia edited by Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker
Collection of post-Soviet Russian fiction reflects life in a new Russia and the influence of Russian literary heritage.
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