January 01, 2006 Half of the Sky A piece of autobiographical fiction about childhood in the Soviet Union, on the day of Leonid Brezhnev’s death. Fiction
January 01, 2002 Liberty We look back on the first decade of a Free Russia with this Literary Excerpt from Mikhail Butov's award-winning novel, Liberty. Butov offers a poignant and humorous portrait of his generation's coming of age after the collapse of the Soviet empire. Fiction
July 01, 2001 Pontius Pilate Without question, Mikhail Bulgakov's masterwork is his novel, The Master and Margarita, finished just before his death in 1940. To introduce his work to a wider audience, we present here the "masterful" second chapter of the novel, in which Pontius Pilate confronts Yeshua. Fiction
