Lydia Roberts is a PhD candidate in the Department of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. She writes about and translates Soviet prison poetry, and tweets about Russian literature at @lydiahr.
Lydia Roberts
Articles
A Look in the Mirror: A Conversation with Marianna Yarovskaya About “Women of the Gulag”
Lydia Roberts speaks to award-winning filmmaker Marianna Yarovskaya, whose latest documentary is “Women of the Gulag.”
One Type of Liberation: On Tara Westover’s Educated
Lydia Roberts reviews Tara Westover's memoir "Educated."
“Not in Someone Else’s Footsteps”: Studying Literature from the Gulag
Lydia Roberts praises “Intellectual Life and Literature at Solovki 1923-1930: The Paris of the Northern Concentration Camps” by Andrea Gullotta.
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