A new translation of works by Vasily Grossman that are as powerful as they are essential to read.

Two wonderful new books on getting lost and found. 

A review of A Hundred Years of Childhood: An Anthology of Russian Writing for Children, 1917-2017,  by Olga Bukhina & Kelly Herold & Andrea Lanoux

A review of Alexander Voloshin's Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood, translated by Boris Dralyuk.

Reviewing a new volume of Chekhov's earliest work, on the writer's 166th birthday.

Our reviewer has been reading memoirs and tales.

Reviewing a comic novel and a book on the state of dissent in Russia.

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.

Reviews of three very different, and very important, books.

Reviewing a graphic bio of Tolstoy and an outstanding poetry anthology.

Books that explain dissent and Dostoyevsky, and a powerful novel.