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This memoir offers an invaluable, broad look at intellectual Russia before and after the revolutions of 1917.
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Ilan Stavans’ latest book is an engrossing potpourri of this thinker’s continuing thoughts about language, culture, and the self.
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Thomas Clerc’s novel reminds us of a stubborn truth: we are all narcissists that live to accumulate shit in rooms.
Read MoreRussian poet Gennady Aygi wrote as an outsider, an ethnic outlier as well as a free-verse stylist of his generation.
Read MoreEvidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.
Read MoreIliazd is more interested in working through all the possible reasons that generate behavior rather than grappling with issues of morality.
Read MoreRapture is a worthwhile curio that grapples, entertainingly, with Modernism’s artistic, structural, and revolutionary quandaries.
Read MoreA splendid, absorbing read in which you feel as if you’ve been dropped onto the set of a Mozart opera.
Read MoreScholastique Mukasonga’s autobiography, Cockroaches, examines the three decades leading up to the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda.
Read MoreAn absorbing and disturbing novel that explores the dangerous turns that erotomania can take.
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