Patrick Kurp

Patrick Kurp is a writer living in Houston, and the author of the literary blog Anecdotal Evidence.

“My Soul Demanded It”: On Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “Between Two Millstones”

Patrick Kurp reads “Between Two Millstones, Book 2: Exile in America, 1978-1994,” a memoir by the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn....

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MEMOIR & ESSAY

Complex, Simple: On Robert Conquest’s “Collected Poems”

Patrick Kurp admires the “Collected Poems” of the renowned historian Robert Conquest, whose verse “ranges from the ribald to the wittily rarefied.”...

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POETRY

A Set of Vicious Russian Nesting Dolls: On Varlam Shalamov’s “Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories”

Patrick Kurp reads and rereads “Sketches of the Criminal World,” the second volume of Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma stories translated by Donald Rayfield....