Friends, readers, and Kindle owners! I am so happy this #TranslationThursday that my book White Magic is now available for purchase in the UK at a reasonable price (£12) without the bugbear of transatlantic postage, and only a fiver on Kindle! https://t.co/O29xmtvi4e
Very happy to have written a few words about @drpollyjones' excellent new book on Gulag fiction for @TheTLS. Really terrific overview and close readings of various texts and trends, older and recent!
https://t.co/HakPVf3WZD
In Russian Culture under Putin Eliot Borenstein explores the key phenomena of Russian cultural life in the 21st century to the backdrop of the slow boil control that has proven an essential component of Putinism. https://t.co/UQKyLsWA2E
Read an excerpt https://t.co/Kzvj1yVLtA
'Chekhov saw both the value and the threat in self-assurance, which, when coupled with ignorance and unchecked emotion, could prove disastrous.'
Boris Dralyuk on Anton Chekhov’s commitment to hard-won dignity
https://t.co/bsrcpldqP5
By complete coincidence I was invited to talk about this on BBC Radio 4 ((#TodayProgramme) this morning. As usual, I shared a fraction of what I would have liked to say! I'm on at about 8.55 am... #Dostoevsky#translation#reading
https://t.co/95tkG9mpSJ
Cold War Women by Cathy McAteer presents original archival research on eight largely unknown émigré translators whose work during the Cold War actively contributed to the reception of Russian and Soviet literature throughout the English-speaking world.
🔓 https://t.co/x4GvVTG8ay
'Until now the English-language translators of Ulitskaya’s prose have been critically well regarded, but not necessarily well known.'
Muireann Maguire on Ludmila Ulitskaya's The Body of the Soul https://t.co/ytPmpxgXDi
‘There is a fissure. A crack. Which Tolstoy refuses to ignore – where irony gets in, the serious joke we acknowledge ruefully, with a wry smile.’
Craig Raine on how Tolstoy prepares the way for Anna Karenina’s suicide
https://t.co/7QjNYHGZGt
‘Here is a novel with a weight of cultural capital, then, that still provides inspiration and creative opportunities for a remarkably broad gamut of writers, artists and thinkers.’
Adam Watt on Proust
https://t.co/C5XkTQvx57
'Mathews, on the group’s radar from the mid-1960s although he did not formally become a member until 1973, was undoubtedly best known as “the American Oulipian”.'
Dennis Duncan on a writer of immense wit and erudition
https://t.co/7KPIHwuxPe
‘As long as she devoted herself to the search for truth, to the cultivating of rigorous attention, her life had value.’
Karen Olsson on the complex identity of Simone Weil
https://t.co/lxu5M1WUMU
'Chain bookstores made certain genres more easily available to readers who would have had trouble finding them in a bookstore of the older variety, where booksellers acted as guides and tastemakers.'
Tadzio Koelb on the case against the publishing cong... https://t.co/4BiJJhO4Xp
'In my Narnia-like dream, I called it cremeschnitte as I gobbled it up; but once awake I realized I’d got the name wrong.'
Irina Dumitrescu (@irinibus) on the cultural resonances of cake
https://t.co/V8lwMq9bXn