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Jennifer Wilson is a contributing essayist for The New York Times Book Review. She holds a Ph.D. in Russian literature from Princeton. (October 2023)
Mother Russia
In Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s latest novel, Kidnapped, Soviet bureaucracy is made all the messier by maternal desperation.
Kidnapped: A Story in Crimes
by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz
October 5, 2023 issue
The First Russian
An unfinished novel about his African great-grandfather provides the best sense of how Pushkin considered his own Blackness.
Peter the Great’s African: Experiments in Prose
by Alexander Pushkin, translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and Boris Dralyuk, edited by Robert Chandler
August 18, 2022 issue
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