Story Archives

• Olga Krauze, a profile by Sonja Franeta
• Aikanush: An Excerpt from Akram Aylisli’s Stone Dreams, translated by Katherine E. Young
• Perpetual Instability: An Interview with Lars Horn, by Natalya Sukhonos
• Embattled Homeland: Readings by Authors Born in Ukraine, Russia, and Moldova
• Every Story Deserves a Beautiful Happy Ending: A Review of Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights, Edited and Translated by Tatiana Klepikova, by Dante Matero
• Readings by Authors Born in Ukraine, Russia, and Moldova at San Francisco’s Lit Crawl
• “Writing Fiction Allows Us to Build Bridges”: Ian Ross Singleton and Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry in Conversation
• From Black Panthers to Ukraine’s Orange Revolution and More: A Conversation with the Author of Revolutions of All Colors Dewaine Farria
• Books for Review, 2022
• To Fairyland: An Excerpt from Yelena Lembersky and Galina Lembersky’s Memoir Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour
• No One Is Guilty, Everyone Is Guilty: An Interview with Elena Gorokhova, by Sasha Vasilyuk
• The Everyday and Invisible Histories of Women: A Review of Oksana Zabuzhko’s Your Ad Could Go Here by Emma Pratt
• Irina Mashinski’s The Naked World, Three Excerpts
• A Motherland of Books: An Essay by Maria Bloshteyn
• Born in the USSR, Raised in Canada
• Yevgenia Nayberg’s I Hate Borsch! (Eerdmans, 2022): A Way to Benefit Ukraine
• Born in the USSR, Raised in Canada: A Reading in Support of Ukraine
• Secrets: An Excerpt from Nataliya Meshchaninova’s Stories of a Life, translated by Fiona Bell
• Valzhyna Mort’s Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Review by Katsiaryna Lozka
• New World, New Planet, an Open Letter by Ivan Sokolov
• Direct Help Needed for Ukrainian Translators
• Ukraine Fundraiser and Reading in Philadelphia by the Cheburashka Collective on March 24
• Ukrainian Refugee Writers Support, List of Resources
• Donate to Organizations Providing Support for Ukraine
• Voices for Ukraine: Video from the Words Together Worlds Apart Reading
• Voices for Ukraine: A Words Together Worlds Apart Reading
• Going to AWP22? Panels not to miss!
• Triple Axel by Yelena Furman, The Willesden Herald’s Story of the Month
• Revealing Poetry from Within: An Interview with Alla Gorbunova, by Alexandra Tkacheva
• Yelena Furman reviews the new translation of Ludmilla Petrushevkaya
• You Never Know When Speaking Russian Might Come in Handy …: An Essay by Alina Adams
• Virtual Conference on Radiant Maternity in Literature and Culture
• Born in the USSR, Raised in California: Video Recording
• Born in the USSR, Raised in California: Immigrant Writers Read From Their Work
• The Scent of Empires: Channel No. 5 and Red Moscow by Karl Schlögel (trans. Jessica Spengler; Polity, 2021), reviewed by Emily Couch
• Cultivating the Habit of Looking: A Q&A with Julia Zarankin
• Crowded Lives and Crowded Stories: Alina Adams and Maria Kuznetsova Discuss their Recent Novels
• Avdot’ia Panaeva’s Feminist Metafiction: An Excerpt from Margarita Vaysman’s Self-Conscious Realism
• Sana Krasikov’s The Patriots: Review by Herb Randall
• Books for Review
• “…he cast no shadow in the shimmering silver gloom.” @Muireann @russianlife #WhiteMagic
• Olga Mark’s “The Lighter”: An Excerpt from Amanat, a Collection-in-Progress of Recent Women’s Writing from Kazakhstan
• Writing and Reviewing Queer Russian Literature: A Conversation with Konstantin Kropotkin
• “Our Favorite Things”: Natalya Sukhonos and Katherine E. Young Discuss Their New Poetry Collections
• Publishing Poetry on Social Media: Interview with Ksenia Zheludova by Josephine von Zitzewitz
• Pocket Samovar: Interview with Konstantin Kulakov, Founding Editor, by Alex Karsavin
• A Virtual Event with Lida Yusupova
• Telling the Story of People Who Didn’t Want to Be Noticed: An Interview with Maria Stepanova
• Svetlana Satchkova: “I almost never say no,” an Interview with a Russian-American Novelist
• Lida Yusupova’s Poetry Collection The Scar We Know
• Izmailovich, the General’s Daughter: an Excerpt from the Memoir by Maximalist Klara Klebanova, translated by Caraid O’Brien
• Translators Reflect Europe in Transition: an Excerpt and a Cast of Characters from Cathy McAteer’s monograph Translating Great Russian Literature: The Penguin Russian Classics
• “Only happy children are loved” — A Review of Daughter of the Shtetl: The Memoirs of Doba-Mera Medvedeva
• Q&A with Boris Dralyuk: “I learned to listen closely in a hundred different ways”
• Feminist and Queer Russophone Poetry
• Video from our book release celebration of LOOK AT HIM by Anna Starobinets, translated by Katherine E. Young
• Book Release Event: LOOK AT HIM by Anna Starobinets, trans. Katherine E. Young
• Humor to the Rescue: Herb Randall, Jonathan Waterlow, and Maxim Osipov
• “I felt that it was my social mission”: an Interview with Anna Starobinets
• The Black Russian by Vladimir Alexandrov
• “Just because Belarusians write in Russian doesn’t mean they’re a part of Russian culture”: An Interview with Tatsiana Zamirovskaya
• A Question in Tchaikovsky Lane: An Essay by Herb Randall
• Readings on Blackness, Racism, and Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Book Love: Julia Voznesenskaya’s The Women’s Decameron
• Carolyn Gold Heilbrun on Constance Garnett
• RusTrans Award Winners for Russian-to- English Translations of Contemporary Fiction, 2020
• Archipelagic Model of Global post-Soviet Cultures (*)
• Welcome, MumberMag!
• Help Independent Bookstores Survive Quarantine
• Queer Science Fiction in Russian, a Meduza podcast with Hilah Kohen
• A Forum of Reflections on Audre Lorde’s Notes from a Trip to Russia
• Soviet Diaspora Poetry Reading by the Cheburashka Collective
• Making People Feel Uneasy: Joanna Chen in Conversation with Katherine Young
• Q&A with Lea Zeltserman: Looking at Soviet-Jewish Immigration through Soviet-Jewish Food
• Virtual Happy Hour of writers with the former Soviet Union connection
• Q&A with Lara Vapnyar: Divide Me by Zero (Tin House Books, 2019)
• Q&A with Olga Livshin: A Life Replaced (Poets and Traitors Press, 2019)
• Q&A with Masha Rumer: Parenting with an Accent (forthcoming from Beacon Press)
• Maybe Esther, A Family Story by Katja Petrowskaja, translated from the German by Shelley Frisch
• Russian kid lit in translation
• The new canon of Russophone women-authors, according to the editors of Polka
• Inheritance, an essay by Mariya Deykute from The Seventh Wave
• Notable Books: Russian Titles in English Translation, 2009-2019
• Hilah Kohen responds to Completely Different, the collection of queer Russophone science fiction, a Twitter feed
• Mary Poppins in Russia: an excerpt from Elena Goodwin’s book Translating England into Russian, available from Bloomsbury
• Russia Beyond’s list of 12 must-read contemporary women writers
• Rus­sophone Science Fic­tion and Uto­pias in the Mar­gins, an essay by Sanna Tuorma in Aleksanteri Insight
• Upcoming Book: Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva
• A Reading Recommendation: Nino Haratischvili’s The Eighth Life
• English PEN Translates Awards 2019
• Central Asian feminists are carving out their space in gender studies, by Aizada Arystanbek
• Emily Couch on The Ethnic Avant-Garde and Diversity in Russia Studies
• Looking Back on Our First Event: Participatory Reading in Post-Soviet Literatures, in Pictures
• Overdue Praise for Karolina Pavlova’s Work
• Genrikh Sapgir’s Sonnets: A Performance from ALTA
• Podcast: Olga Zilberbourg in Conversation with Jennifer Eremeeva
• Interview with Olga Zilberbourg by Odette Heideman
• Alicia J. Rouverol on Olga Zilberbourg’s Like Water and Other Stories (WTAW Press, 2019)
• A recap of the Russian-language panels from the American Literary Translators Conference #ALTA42
• Read Armenian Women: Suggestions
• Yelena Furman’s short story “Naming” published in Narrative Magazine
• Event Announcement: Participatory Reading for Projects in Post-Soviet Literature
• An encounter with Svetlana Alexievich through the eyes of her Spanish translator: an essay in World Literature Today
• Event Announcement: Two Olgas and One Genrikh: Russian Poems, Stories, & Shirts
• Recently Published: Paper-Thin Skin by Aigerim Tazhi, translated by J. Kates
• 7 Russian Booker Prize winners and their must-read novels
• NYC, October 30: Meet Jill! a bimonthly Women+ in Translation reading series
• Russian Literature Podcasts, a roundup
• The NOS(E) Award’s 2019 Longlist
• Lara Vapnyar’s Essay: On Being a Cool Parent
• A Soviet YA Classic: Aleksandra Brushtein’s Дорога уходит в даль (The Road Goes off into the Distance)
• National Book Award Finalist: Julia Phillips
• USSR’s Impact on the lives of Muslim Women in Central Asia
• Yelena Furman on Olga Zilberbourg’s Like Water and Other Stories
• Yelena Furman on Ksenia Buksha’s “The Freedom Factory”
• Olga Tokarczuk Wins the Nobel Prize
• 2019 Warwick Prize in Translation, Long List
• Zhivago’s great passion inspires plagiarism row | News | The Sunday Times
• New Book: Katia Raina’s Castle of Concrete
• Yuri Tynianov’s Permanent Evolution
• Russian Samizdat, Children’s Literature, and the Sunset Years of the Soviet Empire
• Emerging Translators Reading
• British Library hosts English-language presentation of Kazakh literature
• Jennifer Eremeeva’s Lenin Lives Next Door: Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow
• How Should We Review Translations? Part II
• A profile of Ilya Kaminsky
• Interview with Sophia Shalmiyev
• An early reader’s review of Hamid Ismailov’s Of Strangers and Bees in Shelley Fairweather-Vega’s translation
• Upcoming Book: Cold War Casual
• Upcoming Book: Lara Vapnyar’s Divide Me by Zero
• Olga Zilberbourg: To Understand Russia’s Complexities, Turn to Its Contemporary Literature
• Olga Zilberbourg on Teffi’s Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
• Olga Zilberbourg on Michael Honig’s The Senility of Vladimir P.
• Lizok’s Bookshelf: Yasnaya Polyana Finalists, 2019
• Unfortunately, I Care: Joanna Chen Interviews Olga Livshin (BLARB)
• Yelena Furman on Elena Chizhova’s “Little Zinnobers”
• Yelena Furman on Alisa Ganieva’s “Bride and Groom”
• Yelena Furman on Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s “City Folk and Country Folk”
• Yelena Furman on Elena Chizhova’s “The Time of Women”
• Olga Zilberbourg on Keith Gessen’s “A Terrible Country”
• How Should We Review Translations? Part I
• (PDF) Russian Women’s History: Women’s Movement and Feminism 1850s – 1920s. Bibliography. | Irina Yukina – Academia.edu
• Cardinal Points, Issue 9
• Matter | A (somewhat) monthly journal of political poetry and commentary
• Sinead Morrissey’s Soviet Poems
• Upcoming Book Announcement: Alex Halberstadt’s Young Heroes of the Soviet Union
• Blog Round-up: Books First Published Summer 2019
• New Book Announcement — Lara Prescott’s debut novel “The Secrets We Kept”
• Forthcoming Book Announcement: Masha Rumer, Parenting with an Accent: An Immigrant’s Guide to Multicultural Parenting
• Translator Christopher Fort on Uzbek writer Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon
• National Translation Month 2019: Featured Excerpts from Russian, French, and Uzbek Literature in Translation — Academic Studies Press
• In Lara Prescott’s ‘The Secrets We Kept,’ the CIA takes a novel approach to Cold War spycraft – The Washington Post
• Tidying Up the Shelf: Quick & Basic Takes on Books by Ganieva, Yakovleva, and Stolpovskaya
• My Lucky Day: The 2019 Yasnaya Polyana Longlist
• A review of Larissa Shmailo’s Sly Bang
• Jewish Underground Culture in the late Soviet Union
• Five Poems by Aleksandra Tsibulia in Jennifer Lobaugh’s translation
• A Fantastical Traffic Jam by Akram Aylisli (Excerpt) Translated from the Russian by Katherine E. Young
• Kritika’s Feminist Issue
• New Book Alert: Elena Fanailova’s The Russian Version (2nd Edition)
• Olga Livshin on What can Poetry do? podcast
• I Want a Baby and Other Plays
• “What’s the difference between a word and a sigh?” #marcchagall
• Decolonising and demystifying Central Asian literature through translation
• Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language: Rajia Hassib on Mastering a Third Language
• Profile of Lisa Hayden
• Review: Olga Zilberbourg’s “Like Water and Other Stories”
• Klavdia Smola’s: Reinventing the Tradition. Contemporary Russian-Jewish Literature.
• Lara Vapnyar on the Book That Made Her Weep For Hours | Literary Hub
• A Double Life | Literary Hub
• “An eternal vagabond of life and the idea” #victorserge @nyrbclassics
• Peter Pomerantsev’s New Book
• A Life at Noon | Slavica Publishers
• Contemporary Russian-language Literature by Olga Zilberbourg
• Columbia University Press’s new books from the Russian Library series
• Cold War Nostalgias: East and West | American Comparative Literature Association
• A review of Akram Aylisli’s Farewell, Aylis
• Russians in the Catskills – Tablet Magazine
• Janet Fitch’s Chimes of a Lost Cathedral
• The Cheburashka Collective: New poetry of the post-Soviet diaspora
• Olga Livshin’s A Life Replaced
• A review of We Are Building Capitalism! Moscow in Transition 1992-1997 by Robert Stephenson
• Untitled on Russia
• LGBT Literature from Georgia
• Natalya Sukhonos, “Lost in the Stars”
• Anastasia Edel’s writing for the New York Review of Books
• Mother Winter — Sophia Shalmiyev
• Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth