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"Sin" reveals Russia's ambivalent patriotism

May 23, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
Zakhar Prilepin’s obsession with exploring the nature of Russian identity roots the book in a particular literary tradition. But his dark vision of Russian life in the novel “Sin” reveals that life can, and perhaps will, get better

“Ice Trilogy”: Metaphysical masterpiece or empty myth?

May 21, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
Vladimir Sorokin’s “Ice Trilogy” is an extravagant and ambitious work, but not without its pretensions

Russia’s émigrés write east and west

May 18, 2012 Xenia Grubstein
New Yorkers have a one-of-a-kind chance to get acquainted with contemporary Russian literature when Read Russia comes to New York

Why are Tolstoy’s novels popular in the West?

May 15, 2012 Alexandra Guzeva
“Anna Karenina” seems to have been written according to a classic movie scenario. No wonder western directors, including Joe Wright of Great Britain, keep screening Tolstoy’s novel

Sergei Lukyanenko: Master of Light and Dark

May 11, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
Sergei Lukyanenko’s spellbinding tales of magic in post-Soviet Moscow have been attracting readers for fourteen years

Nurturing Russia's writers

May 11, 2012 Nora FitzGerald
Overlook Press, whose emblem is a winged elephant, is a safe place for risky books. And what could be riskier than Russian contemporary fiction?

A visceral voice, writing for those who can’t

May 10, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
German Sadulaev’s flawed but important book “I am a Chechen” tells us truths we need to hear

Moscow’s rat catchers to exterminate Russia’s political plague

May 4, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
Alexander Terekhov, will be in New York for Read Russia, June 1-8 at the Book Expo in New York. His recently translated satirical fantasy “The Rat Catcher” is not for the squeamish

Russian writers find themselves at home in Dystopia

May 3, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
Contemporary Russian writers explore dystopias in wildly inventive ways. But what are they really getting at?

Depicting Russia's lost generation

April 30, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
A recent translation of Andrei Gelasimov’s “Thirst” brings this spare and original novelist, who Russians have compared to J.D. Salinger, to English-language readers

Russian writing goes down a storm in London

April 26, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
The London Book Fair 2012 has revealed how western perceptions of Russian literature are being transformed with the exciting range of new contemporary works that are now reaching international audiences

The books kept them up all night

April 23, 2012 Svetlana Borisova
Last weekend a group formed online to organize an event in which libraries and cultural centers would stay open until dawn

Humanizing Moscow

April 16, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
Oleg Zaionchkovsky’s novel “Happiness is Possible” is an evocative and amusing eulogy to Moscow

Soviet literature’s passport from Ann Arbor to the world

April 13, 2012 John 
Freedman, The Moscow Times
Carl R. Proffer, an American prominent publisher, started printing Soviet and Russian literature at home and selling it by mail after he had founded Ardis Publishers in the early 1970s

A prominent literary critic reveals Tolstoy's mystery

April 7, 2012 Russia Beyond the Headlines
Literary critic Pavel Basinsky answered questions about Leo Tolstoy from RBTH readers

Gary Shteyngart: From dystopia with love

April 5, 2012 Xenia Grubstein
Gary Shteyngart, America’s beloved writer from Russia, talks to RBTH (a little) about life as an émigré writer

From Moscow’s hidden tunnels to Russia’s top literary prizes

April 3, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
Multi-award-winning novelist Alexander Ilichevsky is one of Russia’s most acclaimed contemporary writers. Short extracts from Ilichevsky’s novels are available in English

Literary Russian London

March 31, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
From Herzen’s house to Lenin’s library, London is full of places associated with Russian writers and thinkers

The language of silence finds a voice

March 17, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
Elena Chizhova's "The Time of Women" captivated RBTH literary critic Phoebe Taplin with its story of life in Soviet Leningrad

The incredible life of a Polish Jew

March 15, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
Ludmila Ulitskaya discusses her prize-winning novel, ‘Daniel Stein, Interpreter’ during Jewish Book Week held in London's King’s Palace
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