
Gogol’s Incandescent Inanity
A new translation captures the oddity of Russia’s most baffling comic writer.
The Nose and Other Stories
by Nikolai Gogol, translated from the Russian by Susanne Fusso
November 19, 2020 issue
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Gary Saul Morson is the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and a Professor in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department at Northwestern. His latest book is Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities, cowritten with Morton Schapiro. (November 2020)
Gogol’s Incandescent Inanity
A new translation captures the oddity of Russia’s most baffling comic writer.
The Nose and Other Stories
by Nikolai Gogol, translated from the Russian by Susanne Fusso
November 19, 2020 issue
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by Charles J. Halperin
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by Vasily Grossman, translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler, edited by Robert Chandler and Yuri Bit-Yunan
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
by Alexandra Popoff
October 10, 2019 issue
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Isaac Babel crafted a style to shock readers into seeing the strangeness before their eyes
The Essential Fictions
by Isaac Babel, edited and translated from the Russian by Val Vinokur
Red Cavalry
by Isaac Babel, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk
Odessa Stories
by Isaac Babel, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk
February 8, 2018 issue
Will We Ever Pin Down Pushkin?
Strolls with Pushkin
by Andrei Sinyavsky, translated from the Russian by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy and Slava I. Yastremski
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by Alex Beam
Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin
translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
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by Aileen M. Kelly
November 24, 2016 issue
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