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There was a time when literary journals ruled Russian intellectual life. That time has passed.

Other assorted items from around the Russian world.

In early May, everyone is feeling exhausted after a long, vitamin-deprived winter: schoolchildren are dragging themselves to the June 1 school-year finish line, and their parents are just starting to recover from the cold, dark winter. That’s when the holidays hit.

In the spring of 1989, elections were held: “alternative elections.” This redundant phrase, which today provokes smirks, back then had everyone in a state of euphoria. We had a choice!

In which we use one of the most beloved songs from a classic film to make some points about genitive case. Get singing!

In which an artist tries to get out of a job illustrating a brochure and ends up getting sucked into a Pushkin meme vortex.

On the eastern tip of Crimea is a mysterious, salty lake. We take you there.

“Pushkin is our everything,” Russians like to say. And sometimes it seems like he was everywhere.

Nestled up against the US border with Canada there is an unusually high concentration of Russian-
Americans. This requires some investigation...

An excerpt from the fine new novel Zuleikha, by Guzel Yakhina, about a woman's survival in Siberia exile, inspired by childhood memories of the author's grandmother.

"A classical authoritarian power... does not pay that much attention to what the population thinks, and when it does, this attention is usually limited to a bunch of platitudes loudly proclaimed as the official ideology..."

A poem from the new volume Alcestis of the Underworld, by a regular translator of works published by Russian Life Books.