Leeore Schnairsohn’s fiction, reviews, and translations have appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, The Write Launch, the Slavic and East European Journal, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, Portals, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, with a dissertation on Osip Mandelstam, and teaches in the Expository Writing Program at New York University.
Leeore Schnairsohn
Articles
Dante’s Purgatory, and Ours: On D. M. Black’s New Translation of the “Purgatorio”
Leeore Schnairsohn reflects on D. M. Black’s new translation of Dante’s “Purgatorio” and on the purgatories of our day.
The World a Coke: On Ian Dreiblatt’s “forget thee”
Leeore Schnairsohn laments the world conjured by “forget thee,” a collection of poems by Ian Dreiblatt.
Unfit for Prison: On Ilya Bernstein’s Edition of Osip Mandelstam’s “Poems”
Leeore Schnairsohn scans Ilya Bernstein’s translations of Osip Mandelstam.
What Voices Carry: On Christos Ikonomou and Yuz Aleshkovsky
Leeore Schnairsohn reflects on the voices of Christos Ikonomou’s “Good Will Come From the Sea” and Yuz Aleshkovsky’s “Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage.”
A Nightmare of History: On Sergei Lebedev’s “The Goose Fritz”
Leeore Schnairsohn chases down “The Goose Fritz” by Sergei Lebedev, translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis.
Unwieldy Inheritances: On Olga Slavnikova’s Novel of New Russia, Read in New America
Leeore Schnairsohn takes the pulse of “The Man Who Couldn’t Die,” a novel by Olga Slavnikova, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz.
A Winter’s Tale: The Impossibility of Friedrich Gorenstein’s “Redemption”
Leeore Schnairsohn plumbs the depths of “Redemption,” a novel by Friedrich Gorenstein, translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield.
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