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."

One hundred and sixty-seven years on, a Dostoyevsky novella is seeing a resurgence in popularity. 

A pro-war bookshop in St. Petersburg closes, saying, "the end of the world is near."

A State Duma member is proposing a professional standard for writers. 

Russian school curricula this year is less international and more militaristic. 

Intrepid travelers can now visit the fabled sites of Russian folklore.