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Like light from faraway stars, fiction from outside the Anglosphere may take decades to reach English-language readers. This sinister, indeed sulphurous, novella by a Belarus-born author was first published in Russian in 1991, and won major awards. Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse’s English translation, as creepily compelling as the book deserves, appears long after the contemporary hook
Both tsars and private individuals were willing to experiment with church construction. Abandoning the familiar so-called “kokoshnik keel-like”...
Both tsars and private individuals were willing to experiment with church construction. Abandoning the familiar so-called “kokoshnik keel-li
This tale of a violent Russian veteran is chilling in the light of the Ukraine war
Intense and near-nauseating, Aleksandr Skorobogatov’s slim novel Russian Gothic is part-Gogol, part-Nabokov and thoroughly magnificent