May 28, 2020 Quite a Thursday Here's a #TBT for you with some interesting variety: a poet, a pilot, and a natural disaster. Environment History Literature Moscow Regions TBT
May 01, 2020 Writers in Isolation Russian literature is rich with experiences of isolation. We check in with a few famous writers of the past. History Literature Memoir
May 01, 2020 Provence Pastoral On Vladimir Nabokov’s little known hiatus as a farm hand. History Literature Russians Abroad
May 01, 2020 Review In which we review a book on dissidents, and a novel about literary envy. Government History Literature
April 23, 2020 Dr. Anton Chekhov and the Typhus Epidemic In 1887, Chekhov the doctor encountered typhus, leading Chekhov the writer to pen this powerful story. Health History Literature Science CVSG Russia File
March 18, 2020 Dissecting Chekhov Translation is an art, not a science. And translating Chekhov is a particularly challenging art. Literature Reviews Russia File
March 14, 2020 Coronavirus Coping: Russian Lit has the Answers Russian literature has an answer for everything. In the times of coronovirus, this is your guide. Art Literature CVSG Russia File
March 14, 2020 The Government Inspector Gets a Monument A town in Volgograd Oblast prepares to welcome Gogol's Inspector... again. Cities & Towns Culture Literature Russia File
March 01, 2020 The Beauties On the occasion of the great writer’s 160th birthday, we offer up one of his lesser-known classics, newly translated. Literature Women
March 01, 2020 Punk Rock and Klotsvog Reviews of a history of punk rock and a novel about a not very likeable woman. Literature Music
March 01, 2020 The Case Against Foreign Lit 300 years of book burnings, banishments, and censorship in Russian books. Government History Literature
February 27, 2020 #TBT Russian Literature is Born 195 years ago today Russian literature was born when a certain Yevgeny showed up. Literature St. Petersburg TBT