Russian Dinosaur

  In 1942, the literary critic and Princeton graduate, Edmund Wilson, then forty-seven, made friends with a scholar of Russian literature sl...

A long time ago on a famous writer's estate far, far away, I opened two attractive Russian hardback books I had just bought in Moscow. O...

On the edge of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is a lovely forest park called Marku čiai . It smells excitingly of moss and pine needles:...

 As a translator of Russian literature, I'm used to silence. My work is rarely published, my few readers rarely cite my words, and if th...

Yulia Yakovleva is one of the most entertaining and deft contemporary writers working in Russian today: she hops with agility between YA lit...