From Day of the Oprichnik to the Present Shelf
Vladimir Sorokin built his reputation on texts the Soviet system refused to acknowledge — and has spent the decades since ensuring Western publishers stay busy.
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Writers and the record
Named writers, their current publishing situations, and what the formal designations mean for their work.
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Lyudmila Ulitskaya: The Work That Kept Coming
The novelist left Russia in 2022. The books did not stop.
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Listed: Akunin and Glukhovsky on the Extremist Register
Boris Akunin and Dmitry Glukhovsky were added to Russia's terrorist and extremist register — this piece reports the dates, the register entries, and what followed for their domestic publication.
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Still in Print inside Russia: Vodolazkin and Yakhina
Two writers who stayed — and what their continued domestic publication means for the books reaching English-language readers.
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In Memory of Memory and the Archive It Built
A close reading of Maria Stepanova's 2017 work and its 2021 English translation by Sasha Dugdale — how the book moves between family history and cultural essay, and what the translation preserved.
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Two Writers the Prizes Found Early
Sasha Filipenko and Alisa Ganieva — their published works, their prize histories, and how their fiction reached English-language publishers.
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