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War Made Lyudmila Petrushevskaya Put Down Her Pen

A writer who always loved her neighbors despite their faults cannot write about her hate-filled people today.

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Pushkin House Announces Short List for 2023 Book Prize

This years nominated books represent a wide range of scholarship on and from Russia.

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Dinner is Served Under the Spreading Cranberry Tree

On April Fool's Day we celebrate the jokes and hoaxes of Russian cuisine.

Choices Narrow in Russian Bookstores Amid Anti-LGBT Law, Wartime Restrictions

Ordinary Russians are unable to access an increasingly broad range of literature as bookshops and libraries pull titles from their shelves amid a wartime...

'spiritual connection'

Russian Town Asks Tarantino to Save ‘Doctor Zhivago’s House’

The Hollywood director is known for his love of Pasternak and visited the novelist’s grave in 2004.

Pushkin House Announces Short List for 2021 Book Prize

This prestigious prize has been awarded since 2013.

The 2021 Russian National Bestseller Award Goes to Alexander Pelevin

Russian literary reality is a world of addicts, NGOs, texting and Russia’s trademark search of justice.

The 'Other Worlds' of Teffi

Robert Chandler writes of the difficulties and delights of translating this marvelous writer.

Guzel Yakhina Lays Bare the Soviet Past in 'Train to Samarkand'

Yakhina’s new novel gives voice to the children of 1920s famine.

Olga Grushin's 'The Charmed Wife' Breaks Literary Conventions

Do you wish you had a fairy godmother to wave a magic wand? Think again.

Sergei Lebedev Spins a Dark Thriller in 'Untraceable'

Lebedev's novel is both a gripping thriller and an unflinching examination of Russia's past.

Joseph Brodsky's 'Room and a Half' Now a Museum

Efforts to establish the museum in the poet's former communal apartment began in 1999.

Russian Movie Night: 7 Literary Works on Screen

At home for New Year's? Jennifer Eremeeva shares the best Russian literature-come-to-life movies.

Alexander Kurlyandsky, Creator of 'Nu, Pogodi!', Dead at 82

Kurlyandsky's creations include the parrot Kesha and The Great Gosha.

Moscow Non/Fiction Book Fair Goes Online with Belarusian Nobel Prize Winner Aleksievich

This year the famous fair has split in two: online meetings now and the traditional fair in the spring.

weekend profile

A Tolstoy Descendant Returns to His Roots in Yasnaya Polyana

Ilya Tolstoy left a journalism career in the big city for his ancestor’s famous estate. Now his new apple business is bearing fruit.

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Roma Liberov Debuts New Film on Writer Andrei Platonov

Director Roma Liberov, translator Robert Chandler and producer Alexander Mamontow on Platonov.

Pushkin House Shortlisted Books Tackle Authoritarianism

The judges seem to have found a thematic thread running through Russian letters (and life) this year.

1933 Nobel Laureate

Celebrating Writer Ivan Bunin

The 1933 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature was once spurned but is now celebrated in his homeland.

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