
‘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
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Sophie Pinkham recently received a Ph.D. from the Slavic Department at Columbia, where she teaches Literature Humanities. She is the author of Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine. (December 2020)
‘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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