Everything on the site
All 29 pieces
Five sections, 29 pieces. The complete list, no dropdown required.
presses that work now
Publishing in exile and under label — Freedom Letters, Vidim, Babel Books, and the market that remained.
Writers and the record
Named writers, their current publishing situations, and what the formal designations mean for their work.
What the translator does
The craft and commerce of literary translation from Russian — the major figures, their methods, and the argument that will not end.
books that crossed over
The specific translated editions that built English-language Russian literature — and the choices that shaped each one.
- 01Life and Fate: Four Decades of English-Language Publication
- 02Which Master and Margarita Are You Reading?
- 03Crime and Punishment, Four Times Over
- 04Feltrinelli, 1957: How Doctor Zhivago Was First Published
- 05One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: The Novy Mir Issue and After
- 06We, 1924: The Book That Reached English Before Russian
censorship was built
Samizdat, Glavlit, the Union of Soviet Writers, the Nobel awards, and the apparatus that shaped what could be printed.