The Black Sheep Dances

First off, there's officially just two months to complete the 2011 Eastern European Reading Challenge!  How have you done so far?  The o...

Translated by Thomas B. Ahrens and Edward T. Larkin "He belongs to a lower form of the human species.  An occasional game of poker is ...

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

If you are going to make a journey, you know it’s not going to be dull if your companion has a reputation for getting into fights. It could ...

The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust You'll find this book in the biography section of the bookstore, but at f...

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