In this interview Petrova talks about St. Petersburg’s cosmopolitanism, Russia’s problems with forgotten history, and the out-of-body experience of good translation.
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In this interview conducted at City of Asylum Pittsburgh, Canadian writer and filmmaker David Bezmozgis discusses his latest novel, The Free World, the immigrant tale of three generations of Russian Jews who flee Soviet Latvia and head for Rome.
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Maryja Martysevich performing spoken word at the Jazz Poetry Concert, Photo © Renee Rosensteel In her 2006 essay, “The Men We Choose,” Belarusian writer Maryja Martysevich audaciously describes the fate of the men in her country: […]
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