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Tuesday, 27th April 2021 at 12:26 pm New Netflix fantasy series Shadow and Bone plunges viewers into a rich alternate world, full of warring nations with their own distinct cultures and people who all interact over the course of the series. Advertisement Created by author Leigh Bardugo in her Grishaverse novels, the countries and map of Shadow and Bone are an iconic part of the source material, and you can see how it all (literally) unfolds in the tweet below – but what are the countries, and how do they factor into the series? How can you know where you're going if you don't know where you've been?
, a newly translated selection of the Russian writer Teffi’s stories, which was published earlier this week by New York Review Books. Teffi. Photo courtesy of New York Review Books. There are writers who muddy their own water, to make it seem deeper. Teffi could not be more different: the water is entirely transparent, yet the bottom is barely visible. —Georgy Adamovich It is not unusual for a writer to be pigeonholed, but few great writers have suffered from this more than Teffi. Several of her finest works are extremely bleak, but many Russians still know only the comic and satirical sketches she wrote during her first years as a professional writer, from 1901 until 1918. Few critics have recognized the full breadth of her human sympathy, her Chekhovian ability to write convincingly about people from every level of society: illiterate peasants, respectable bourgeois, monks and priests, eccentric poets, bewildered émigrés, and public figures ranging from Lev Tolstoy to Rasputin and Lenin. Teffi also has a remarkable gift for writing about children, for showing us the world from the perspective of a small child.