Category: Russian Literature

December 9, 2016

Thoughts on and an Excerpt from Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays by Andrei Platonov

Adham Azab-Xu responds to Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays by Andrei Platonov, edited by Robert Chandler and translated by Chandler, Jesse Irwin, and Susan Larsen. Also includes an excerpt.

December 8, 2016

An Excerpt from the main text of Strolls with Pushkin

Read an excerpt from Andrei Sinyavsky’s STROLLS WITH PUSHKIN.

December 8, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: Between Dog and Wolf in Translation

Sasha Sokolov’s BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF has appeared in English for the very first time, and so the idea of the “untranslatable” returns to the realm of translation mythology. Or does it?

December 7, 2016

Excerpt from Catharine Theimer Nepomnyaschy's introduction to Andrei Sinyavsky's Strolls with Pushkin

An introduction to and excerpt from Andrei Sinyavsky’s STROLLS WITH PUSHKIN.

December 6, 2016

Excerpt from Sasha Sokolov's Between Dog and Wolf

Read an excerpt from the highly-anticipated translation of Sasha Sokolov’s BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF.

December 5, 2016

Interview with Alexander Boguslawski, Translator of Sasha Sokolov's Between Dog and Wolf

Interview with Alexander Boguslawski, translator of Sasha Sokolov’s BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF

June 9, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: Many Annas Karenina

A brief comment on Janet Malcolm’s recent piece in the New York Review of Books on translations of Anna Karenina.

April 28, 2016

An Overview of the Inaugural Russian Library Titles

An Overview of the Inaugural Russian Library Titles: Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays, Strolls with Pushkin, and Between Dog and Wolf.

January 28, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: The Closing of the Russian Mind?

Russian Library editor Christine Dunbar reacts to “The Closing of the Russian Mind? Freedom of Expression in Putin’s Russia.”