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Gorbunova, Alla IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD, MY LOVE Deep Vellum (Fiction None) $16.95 2, 7 ISBN: 9781646052103 Fantasies and grotesqueries permeate a post-perestroika coming-of-age tale. An unnamed narrator [...]

* Wound Oksana Vasyakina, trans, from the Russian by Elina Alter. Catapult, $27 (240p) ISBN 978-1-6462-2144-8 Poet Vasyakina explores grief and sexuality in her stirring English-language debut about a 30-year-oid [...]

A Korean poet living in Seoul has stopped speaking. It's not a protest, a neurological condition, or a conceptual artwork--the woman in question would like to speak but can't. She [...]

Wound. By Oksana Vasyakina. Tr. by Elina Alter. Sept. 2023.240P. Catapult, $27 (9781646221448); e-book (9781646221455). When Vasyakina begins her debut novel, a work of autofiction, the narrator, a young poet, [...]

Vasyakina, Oksana. Wound. Catapult. Sept. 2023.240p. tr. from Russian by Elina Alter. ISBN 9781646221448. $27. LITERARY In this autobiographical debut novel, a young lesbian poet travels from Moscow to her [...]

It's the End of the World, My Love Alia Gorbunova, trans, from the Russian by Elina Alter. Deep Vellum, $16.95 trade paper (308p) ISBN 978-1-64605-210-3 Generational traumas, broken relationships, and [...]

Vasily Grossman's novel Stalingrad, newly translated from the Russian by husband and wife Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and publishing in June from New York Review Books, is a book of [...]

Two visitors from Paris sat recently in a glass-walled room in New York City, signing their names in a work written by a 19th-century nobleman. The view was of 55th [...]

The stories in Grudova's The Doll's Alphabet (Coffee House, Oct.) feature mermaids, maddening machines, and werewolves. How did you select the stories included in your collection? I posted a few [...]

The article offers information on the New York Film Festival which features the screening of documentaries "The B-Side" directed by Errol Morris and "Karl Marx City" directed by Petra Epperlein with Michael Tucker.

The article features Vasily Grossman, author of the epic novel "Stalingrad," translated by husband and wife Robert and Elizabeth Chandler. Topics discussed include information on the novel, personal background of Grossman, and factors that made Grossman's articles the "Krasnaya Zvezda" newspaper's most popular pieces.

The article features Elif Batuman, author of the novel "The Idiot," which is due from Penguin Press in March 2017. Topics include her essay collection titled "The Possessed," an overview of "The Idiot," and her writing job for the journal "New Yorker." The similarities between "The Idiot's" protagonist and narrator Selin Karada&#011F; and Batuman are also mentioned.

The article offers a brief profile of literary translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Emphasis is given to topics such as the publication of the book "Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin," capturing the rhythms and cadences of the Russian language into English translation, and author Alexander Pushkin's legacy in Russian literature.