Volume 36, Number 9 · June 1, 1989

The Real Thing

By Henry Gifford
On the Golden Porch
by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Antonina W. Bouis

Knopf, 198 pp., $17.95

The New Soviet Fiction: Sixteen Short Stories
compiled by Sergei Zalygin

Abbeville Press, 318 pp., $22.50

Balancing Acts: Contemporary Stories by Russian Women
edited by Helena Goscilo

Indiana University Press, 337 pp., $17.50

The Human Experience: Contemporary American and Soviet Fiction and Poetry US/USSR Committee
edited by the Soviet/American Joint Editorial Board of the Quaker, with forewords by William Styron, by Daniil Granin

Knopf/Khudozhestvennaya Literatura (Moscow), 357 pp., $19.95

In his introduction to The New Soviet Fiction Sergei Zalygin writes:



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