The Black Sheep Dances

This bilingual collection of the poems of Lev Loseff begins with a preemptory acknowledgement, by series editor Jean Boase-Beier, of th...

Translated from the Russian by Yasha Klots and Ross Ufberg Astonishing.  Painful.  And incredibly difficult to put down... I am not sure...

We're five months into the Reading Challenge...how are you doing?  Are you anywhere near your goals for tourist, scholar, or ambassador?...

City planning often seems to be a new concept: a trend towards community-oriented design features that are usually intended to better a neig...

Robert Belenky is a clinical child psychologist who has chosen to spend his time working to study the dynamics of children who are abandoned...

Russia:  2011 READ EAST selection Pushkin is pretty much synonymous with Russian prose, and in the past I can only remember reading a shor...

Translated from the Ukrainian by Erma Odrach Talk about a timely book! This novel is based on Theodore Odrach’s own life when Stalin’s Red...

Translated from the Italian by Allan Cameron “Every person is complicated, only in novels are characters consistent, while in reality we ...

Russian Winter is an engrossing fiction novel from Daphne Kalotay that combines personal history with notorious events in human history.  F...

Translated by Bill Johnston. Winner of the Vilenica International Literary Prize My final impression, closing this book, was that Andrzej S...

Edited by Natalia Smirnova and Julia Goumen Note: this is not published by the Moscow Chamber of Commerce or Tourist Board.  This is not an...

The Russian Version was recently awarded the prize for 2010 Best Translated Book Award for Poetry by Three Percent (University of Rochester...