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Zina’s observations of her time in Detroit crystallize both a feeling of otherness and a wry critique of the young American activists who celebrated socialist ideas without fully appreciating the legacy of Soviet rule in Ukraine.
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Josh Lambert discusses the anthology HOW YIDDISH CHANGED AMERICA AND HOW AMERICA CHANGED YIDDISH.
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The missionaries seemed concerned. I figured it was too late for that.
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Katya Apekina discusses her debut novel, THE DEEPER THE WATER THE UGLIER THE FISH.
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Birute Putrius discusses her second novel, THE LAST BOOK SMUGGLER.
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Ilya Kaminsky discusses his new collection, DEAF REPUBLIC.
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Music has haunted me my whole life.
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Irina Reyn discusses her new novel, MOTHER COUNTRY.
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I am mother. I am child. I am mother. The overlapping, hard-won truth—victim either way, saved either way.
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Sophia Shalmiyev discusses her debut memoir, MOTHER WINTER.
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“The miracle, in Kharms, is a kind of rupture within the physical structure of the world.”
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Rabeah Ghaffari discusses her debut novel, TO KEEP THE SUN ALIVE.
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As if he had just made a decision, Max said, “Drop me at Red Square.”
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Sally McGrane, author of the debut novel Moscow at Midnight, shares a reading list!
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...moreWelcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country.
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This is what I want him to think of me. The girl poised to surf a wave under the heaviness of the full moon, the ocean around her radiant with light.
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She was brave, coming to the station that day. It was still a time when people seen associating with the “traitors” could have had trouble from the KGB.
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His story is more than just a story about space, but also a story about history and how it moves. How time and space bend, burn, warp, and ignore.
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Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet drain. You owe it to yourself, your community, and your humanity to contribute whatever you can, even if it is just awareness of […]
...moreA massive bookstore, The Book Garden, has opened in Iran’s capital city, Tehran. The Huffington Post takes a look back at the Strand’s ninety years of successful bookselling in New York City. A Russian bookstore is helping customers learn Chinese.
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The last time I punked the muse, I wrote of the summer solstice, a meditation into the heart of the sun. My goal was to leave behind the ever-more-depressing news cycle, and touch some place deep down where hope resides. We live in the Sun, I concluded. I envisioned a home where we could all […]
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Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet drain. You owe it to yourself, your community, and your humanity to contribute whatever you can, even if it is just awareness of […]
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“Wherever you are on earth, you are safe,” writes Richard Hugo. Really?
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