March 01, 2017 Lenin, Rodeo and Beslan By Paul E. Richardson Reviews of "Lenin on the Train," "Don't Let my Baby Do Rodeo," and "Mother Tongue". Literature
January 01, 2017 Two Gentlemen, Two Novels By Paul E. Richardson Reviews of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, The Summer Guest by Alison Anderson. Also short reviews of The Man with the Poison Gun by Serhii Plokhy, Bears in the Streets by Lisa Dickey, and Hard Times by Vasily Sleptsov.
November 01, 2016 Kremlin's Men, Majors and Fools By Paul E. Richardson Reviews of books on Putin's Kremlin, two films by Yury Bykov, and a map of Moscow.
September 01, 2016 Memoirs and Filmmaking By Paul E. Richardson Reviews of two books by Teffi and a novel, Masha Regina, by Vadim Leventhal.
July 01, 2016 Wither Russia? By Paul E. Richardson In which we review four books: I’m Going to Ruin Their Lives, by Marc Bennetts; Black Wind, White Snow, by Charles Clover; The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep, by David Satter; and The Invention of Russia by Arkady Ostrovsky. All reviews are posted in our Book Reviews section.
May 01, 2016 A Librarian, An Inventor and A Painter By Paul E. Richardson Reviews of Mikhail Elizarov's The Librarian, Oleg Kashin's Fardwor, Russia and Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris
March 01, 2016 Putin, Poetry and Spies By Paul E. Richardson and Alice E.M. Underwood Reviews of Putin Country, by Anne Garrels, Russian Silver Age Poetry, Sibelan Forrester and Martha Kelley, eds., and Near and Distant Neighbors, by Johnathan Haslam.
January 01, 2016 Fiction, Ukraine and Civil War By Paul E. Richardson Reviews of "The Big Green Tent," by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, "The Gates of Europe," by Serhii Plokhy, and a new translation of "Red Cavalry," by Isaac Babel.
November 01, 2015 Healers, Tsars and Gangs By Paul E. Richardson Reviews of Eugene Vodolazkin's Laurus, Stephen Meyer's The New Tsar, and Svetlana Stephenson's Gangs of Russia.
September 01, 2015 Tsars, War and Komiks By Paul E. Richardson Books we liked, including Dominc Lieven's "The End of Tsarist Russia," Anthony Marra's "The Tsar of Love and Techno," Denise Youngblood's "Bondarchuk's War and Peace," and Jose Alaniz's "Komiks: Comic Art in Russia."
July 01, 2015 Stalin, Mythology and Faberge By Paul E. Richardson Reviews of "Stalin: A New Biography of a Dictator," by Oleg Khlevniuk; "The Great Glass Sea", by Josh Weil; and the documentary "Faberge: A Life of its Own."
May 01, 2015 A Dangerous Woman and a Soviet Kid By Paul E. Richardson In which we review "A Very Dangerous Woman," by Deborah McDonald and Jeremy Dronfield; "The Complete Folktales of A.N. Afanas'ev," by Jack V. Haney; "USSR: Diary of a Perestroika Kid," by Vladimir Kozlov; "Moscow, St. Petersburg & The Golden Ring," by Masha Nordbye; and "High Society Dinners," by Yuri Lotman.
