<h4>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).</h4>

Marat Grinberg

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

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

The Doomed City

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

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

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).