Two female Ukrainian authors have been honored in Germany’s Hotlist literary awards for 2025.

The Ukrainian journalist Anastasiia Marsiz’s first novel, set in modern Italy, reads in the literary tradition of skazki, Eugene Onegin and Tolstoy’s folk tales.

Ukrainian book sales are decreasing, but demand for English-language literature is on the rise.

Author Dmitry Bykov's books are disappearing from shelves after Russia placed the writer on its international wanted list. 

Russia bans the "International Satanism Movement," demonstrating the modern interpretation of Mikhail Bulgakov's classic "The Master and Margarita."

Modern Russian literature is leveraging a science fiction trope to rewrite history.

Author Maria Galina declined to accept the 2025 Dar Literary Prize, sparking debate over engagement with Russian-language literature in wartime. 

Karolina Pavlova struggled to find literary acclaim as a woman in the 19th century, but her work endures.

Vladimir Mayakovsky sports a complicated legacy a nearly a century after Joseph Stalin immortalized him as the defining poet of the Soviet epoch.

What our reviewer has been reading lately, and what it has gotten him thinking about.

Police in arrested 10 current and former employees of Russia's largest publishing house on charges of "LGBT propaganda."