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Sophie Pinkham is the author of Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine. She is working on a cultural history of the Russian forest. (March 2022)
The Freedom of Historical Fiction
The Formalist literary critic Yuri Tynianov wrote historical novels as “experiments in scholarly fantasy.”
Permanent Evolution: Selected Essays on Literature, Theory and Film
by Yuri Tynianov, translated from the Russian and edited by Ainsley Morse and Philip Redko, with an introduction by Daria Khitrova
Lieutenant Kizhe
by Yury Tynianov, translated from the Russian by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and with illustrations by Olga Smart
Küchlya: Decembrist Poet
by Yury Tynianov, translated from the Russian by Anna Kurkina Rush, Peter France, and Christopher Rush
The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar
by Yury Tynyanov, translated from the Russian by Anna Kurkina Rush and Christopher Rush
Young Pushkin
by Yury Tynyanov, translated from the Russian by Anna Kurkina Rush and Christopher Rush
March 10, 2022 issue
Designs for Living
Svetlana Kana Radević’s architecture adapted modernism to the peculiarities of history and politics in Communist Yugoslavia.
Skirting the Center: Svetlana Kana Radević on the Periphery of Postwar Architecture
an exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Palazzo Palumbo Fossati, May 22–November 21, 2021
September 23, 2021 issue
No More Mother-Saviors
Recent collections of poetry by Russian women offer a glimpse of how perceptions of feminism are changing in post-communist Slavic countries.
F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry
edited by Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky, and Ainsley Morse, and translated from the Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky, Ainsley Morse, Alex Karsavin, Helena Kernan, Kit Eginton, Valzhyna Mort, and Kevin M.F. Platt
The Scar We Know
by Lida Yusupova, edited by Ainsley Morse and translated from the Russian by Sibelan Forrester, Martha Kelly, Brendan Kiernan, Madeline Kinkel, Hilah Kohen, Ainsley Morse, Stephanie Sandler, Joseph Schlegel, and Bela Shayevich
Life in Space
by Galina Rymbu, translated from the Russian by Joan Brooks, Helena Kernan, Charles Bernstein, Kevin M.F. Platt, and Anastasiya Osipova, and with a preface by Eugene Ostashevsky
April 29, 2021 issue
‘Something Resembling Normal Life’
Paek Nam-nyong’s ‘Friend’ tells ordinary stories of love and divorce in 1980s North Korea.
Friend: A Novel from North Korea
by Paek Nam-nyong, translated from the Korean by Immanuel Kim
December 3, 2020 issue
Living by Lies
Joshua Yaffa’s ‘Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia’
Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia
by Joshua Yaffa
August 20, 2020 issue
Realists of the Soviet Fantasy
Artists like Deineka and Samokhvalov managed to produce valuable work while navigating the shoals of Soviet doctrine.
Deineka/Samokhvalov
an exhibition at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, November 18, 2019–January 19, 2020
May 14, 2020 issue
Blood on the Ice
Bathsheba Demuth’s ‘Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait’
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
by Bathsheba Demuth
November 7, 2019 issue
The Chernobyl Syndrome
Three new books on the disaster and our radioactive world
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
by Kate Brown
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
by Adam Higginbotham
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
by Serhii Plokhy
April 4, 2019 issue
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