Marat Grinberg

Marat Grinberg is professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Reed College. He is the author of “I am to be Read not from Left to Right, but in Jewish: from Right to Left”: The Poetics of Boris Slutsky (2011), Aleksandr Askoldov: The Commissar (2016), and co-editor of Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen (2013).

The Russian-Jewish-American Triangle of Maxim D. Shrayer

Maxim Shrayer’s collection of poems, Of Politics and Pandemics: Songs of a Russian Immigrant, begins with three epigraphs — by Fernando Pessoa, Ilya Selvinsky, and Carl Sandburg, respectively. Each of them is deeply suggestive. Pessoa, the great Portuguese modernist, developed the ...

The Russian-Jewish-American Triangle of Maxim D. Shrayer

MARAT GRINBERG

A Jeremiah of “Limping Iambs”: On Boris Slutsky’s Centennial

Marat Grinberg celebrates the centennial of the birth of Boris Slutsky, “arguably the most misunderstood and idiosyncratic of 20th-century poets.”...

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The Soviet Matrix: On the Strugatsky Brothers’ “The Doomed City”