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October 22, 2020

One Billion Years to the End of the World by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Translated by Antonina W. Bouis Reviewed by Karen Langley Science fiction writing often gets a bad press; dismissed as lightweight genre writing, mocked for…

March 24, 2020

Fandango and Other Stories by Alexander Grin

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk Reviewed by Karen Langley Recent years have seen a wave of wonderful new translations of ‘lost’ Russian authors of the…

necropolis Vladislav Khodasevich, Sarah Vitali russian lilbrary
August 1, 2019

Necropolis by Vladislav Khodasevich

Translated by Sarah Vitali Review by Karen Langley, The Russian Library series from Columbia University Press has thrown up some marvellous treasures of literature…

October 4, 2018

Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar by Yuri Tynianov

Translated by Susan Causey, Translation editor Vera Tsareva-Brauner Review by Karen Langley Recent years have seen a large number of works by Russian authors…

Sentimental tales Mikhail Zoshchenko Boris Dralyuk russian library
August 2, 2018

Sentimental Tales by Mikhail Zoshchenko

Translated by Boris Dralyuk Review by Karen Langley Russian satirical writing has a rich heritage, stretching all the way back to  the  time of…

July 19, 2018

The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin

Translated by Lisa Hayden Reviewed by Karen Langley You awake in a hospital bed. You have no memory of who you are or how…

The Golovlevs
April 12, 2018

The Golovlevs by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

Translated by I.P. Foote Review by Karen Langley Back in SNB #13 I reviewed “The History of a Town” by Saltykov-Shchedrin, one of the…

February 1, 2018

The Russian Soul: Selections from A Writer’s Diary by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Introduced by Rosamund Bartlett Translated by Kenneth Lantz / Olga Shartse Reviewed by Karen Langley Notting Hill Editions will probably need no introduction to…

Sofia Khvoshchinskaya Nora Favorov city folk country folk russian library
December 7, 2017

City Folk and Country Folk by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya

Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov Reviewed by Karen Langley If asked to name any of the great Russian writers of the 19th century, most…

Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky edited Bryan Karetnyk
September 19, 2017

Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky, edited by Bryan Karetnyk

Reviewed by Karen Langley In the anniversary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution a number of books have been issued which look at that…

rapture iliazd russian library
August 15, 2017

Rapture by Iliazd

Translated by Thomas J. Kitson Reviewed by Karen Langley The early 20th century was a time of great change and upheaval; it produced wars…

The History of a Town by M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin
December 8, 2016

The History of a Town by M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

Translated by I.P. Foote Reviewed by Karen Langley Russian literature has long had a tradition of satire stretching all the way back to Gogol,…

October 6, 2016

Rasputin and Other Ironies by Teffi

Translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson and Rose France Reviewed by Karen Langley One of my highlights from 2014 was the…

August 18, 2016

The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Translated by Dora O’Brien Reviewed by Karen Langley Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky is best known in the west for his novels Crime and Punishment,…

June 9, 2016

Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi

Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson and Irina Steinberg Reviewed by Karen Langley The Russian Revolution and ensuing Civil War were…

April 12, 2016

The Flight by Gaito Gazdanov

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk Reviewed by Karen Langley As well as being the driving force behind the Stefan Zweig revival, Pushkin Press has also…

October 22, 2015

The Prank: The Best of Young Chekhov, by Anton Chekhov

Translated by Maria Bloshteyn Reviewed by Karen Langley The art of the short story is a difficult one, and many authors never attain the…

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April 23, 2015

The Librarian by Mikhail Elizarov

Translated by Andrew Bromfield Reviewed by Karen Langley We all believe in the transformative power of literature; however, what would happen if books really did change…

January 27, 2015

In the Twilight by Anton Chekhov

Translated by Hugh Aplin Reviewed by Karen Langley Russian author Anton Chekhov, although possibly best known for his plays like The Cherry Orchard, is also…

January 21, 2015

Notes on a Cuff by Mikhail Bulgakov

Translated by Roger Cockrell Reviewed by Karen Langley When Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov’s magnum opus The Master and Margarita was finally published, decades after his death,…

January 19, 2015

The Same Old Story by Ivan Goncharov

Translated by Stephen Pearl Reviewed by Karen Langley Russian author Ivan Goncharov is known to most Anglophone readers for his novel Oblomov; indeed, with that…

December 4, 2014

The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol

Translated by Anna Summers Reviewed by Karen Langley Russian author Nikolai Gogol, best known for satirical works like The Nose and Dead Souls, is not a name…

October 16, 2014

The Buddha’s Return by Gaito Gazdanov

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk Reviewed by Karen Langley Following the Russian Revolution and the Civil War, many of that country’s beleaguered citizens escaped abroad,…

October 10, 2014

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

A New Translation by Rosamund Bartlett Written by Helen Rappaport Taking on one of the great novels of the nineteenth century is a huge…

July 9, 2014

Belkin’s Stories by Alexander Pushkin

Translated and with commentary by Roger Clarke Reviewed by Karen Langley Alexander Pushkin is, of course, Russia’s national poet. Tragically killed in a duel…

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