Salvaging a Soviet Jewish Literary Culture: On Marat Grinberg’s “The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf”
Yelena Furman reviews Marat Grinberg’s “The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines.”...
Yelena Furman reviews Marat Grinberg’s “The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines.”...
Yelena Furman reviews Sasha Senderovich’s “How the Soviet Jew Was Made.”...
Yelena Furman is drawn to “The New Adventures of Helen,” a collection of fairy tales for adults by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, translated from the Russian by Jane Bugaeva....
Yelena Furman traverses “A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas” by Maxim D. Shrayer....
Yelena Furman deconstructs “The Freedom Factory,” a novel by Ksenia Buksha, translated from Russian by Anne O. Fisher....
Yelena Furman studies “Little Zinnobers,” a novel by Elena Chizhova, translated from Russian by Carol Ermakova....
Yelena Furman navigates “A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada,” by Edyta M. Bojanowska....
Yelena Furman rides along with “Horsemen of the Sands” by Leonid Yuzefovich, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz....
Yelena Furman reads “Bride and Groom,” a novel by the Dagestani author Alisa Ganieva, translated from the Russian by Carol Apollonio....
Yelena Furman on “City Folk and Country Folk,” a rediscovered novel by the 19th-century Russian writer Sofia Khvoshchinskaya....
Yelena Furman recommends “The State Counsellor,” the sixth installment in the Erast Fandorin detective series by Boris Akunin....
THE TIME OF WOMEN is Simon Patterson and Nina Chordas's translation of Elena Chizhova's 2009 Russian Booker-winning novel Vremia zhenshchin. (Modeled on the Booker Prize in Britain, the Russian Booker is given to the best Russian-language text; Chizhova had been nominated ...