Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart’s books include the memoir Little Failure and the novels Our Country Friends, Lake Success, and Super Sad True Love Story. (February 2023)

Beyond the Pale

After the Russian Revolution, Jews left behind the shtetl and had to navigate a modern identity: New Soviet Man.

How the Soviet Jew Was Made

by Sasha Senderovich

February 9, 2023 issue

Bellow's Death Comedy

At bottom, Saul Bellow’s digressive, meandering, largely plotless Ravelstein boils down to a series of Hebraic men kibitzing on the edge of eternity.

May 10, 2015

Adventures of a True Believer

Monumental Propaganda

by Vladimir Voinovich, translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield

May 26, 2005 issue

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