March 01, 2015 Prison, Alexis and Siberia By Paul E. Richardson Reviews of a book by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, "My Fellow Prisoners," "Alexis in America, by Lee Farrow, "Midnight in Siberia," by by NPR host David Greene, "Trepanation of the Skull," by Sergei Gandlevsky, and "An American Diplomat in Bolshevik Russia," by DeWitt Clinton Poole.
January 01, 2015 Two Megalomaniacs By Paul E. Richardson A review of two books on megalomaniacal personalities, The Baron's Cloak, by Willard Sunderland, and Limonov by Emmanuel Carrere. See our reviews section for full reviews.
November 01, 2014 Memoirs and History By Paul E. Richardson A review of Elena Gorokhova's memoir, Russian Tatoo, The Devil's Alliance, by Roger Moorhouse, and The Kreutzer Sonata Variations, translated by Michael Katz. Also, a look at the amazing photo album book, Soviet Ghosts, by Rebecca Litchfield.
September 01, 2014 Poets and Steam By Paul E. Richardson Where we review two books by and about poets, and one about banyas. All are highly recommended.
July 01, 2014 Spies, Denouncers and Gods By Paul E. Richardson Three books make our cut this issue, and all are about spies and infiltrators.
May 01, 2014 Putin, Lenin and Idioms By Paul E. Richardson and Nora Seligman Favorov A review of two timely books on Russian political and expat culture, and an update to a most important language book.
March 01, 2014 Spies and Memoirs By Paul E. Richardson Reviews of two nonfiction works about spies (some in Russia, one in America), and two memoirs of Russians from very different eras.
January 01, 2014 Empire and Paranoia By Paul E. Richardson This issue's review section considers Ben Judah's "Fragile Empire," Victor Martinovich's "Paranoia," C.P. Lesley's "The Golden Lynx," and Olga Fedina's "What Every Russian Knows (And You Don't)."
November 01, 2013 Baba Yagas, Kremlin and Cooks By Paul E. Richardson A review of two books on Baba Yaga, one on the Kremlin, and one on Soviet cuisine and memoir. Also brief reviews of two movies and three other books on everything from Lee Harvey Oswald to emigres in Paris.
July 01, 2013 Russian Mysteries By Paul E. Richardson Where we review "Murder at the Dacha," by Alexei Bayer, "The Twelfth Department," by William Ryan and "The House of Special Purpose," by John Boyne. Also reviewed in short are a few works of both fiction and nonfiction.
May 01, 2013 Black Russians and Dark Years By Paul E. Richardson A review of "Twilight of the Romanovs," by Blom and Buckley, "Lina and Serge," by Simon Morrison, "The Black Russian," by Vladimir Alexandrov, and "Moscow 1937," by Karl Schlogel.
March 01, 2013 Decline and Stalin By Paul E. Richardson Book reviews of "The Last Man in Russia," by Oliver Bullough; "Stalin's Barber," by Paul Levitt; "St. Petersburg City Pack," by Oxygen Books; "Happy Moscow," by Andrei Platonov (Robert Chandler, trans.); and "The Lying Year," by Andrei Gelasimov (Marian Schwartz, trans.).
