Iliazd is more interested in working through all the possible reasons that generate behavior rather than grappling with issues of morality.
Russian literature
Book Review: “Rapture” — Modernism, Daredevil Style
Rapture is a worthwhile curio that grapples, entertainingly, with Modernism’s artistic, structural, and revolutionary quandaries.
Book Review: “The Man Between” — Homage to a Translator Extraordinaire
The Man Between offers a fascinating glimpse of the late master translator Michael Henry Heim, its reportedly modest and reticent protagonist.
Book Review: Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” — A Translation That Respects the Nuances
Marian Schwartz’s careful translation of Anna Karenina is exquisitely mindful of the book’s complex linguistic texture.
Fuse Book Review: Meet Mikhail Kuzmin —The Oscar Wilde of Russian Literature
Poet Mikhail Kuzmin, born in the 1870s into a family of Russian Old Believers, was a passionate exponent of gay literature in the early twentieth century.