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D. Vance Smith, joined in conversation with Simon Gikandi, presents his new book Atlas&rs ...
From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire,Ā and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and...
C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth...
Leading Soviet commentator Vladimir Pozner reflects on his nation from Stalin to perestroika, the evolution of the Communist party, past "cultural genocide," and the world's emergence from Cold War...
Few places have shaped as many sensibilities as the exotic, mythical city of Alexandria. Jane Lagoudis Pinchin's gracefully written book describes the profound influence exerted by the spirit of...
Russia today represents one of the major examples of the phenomenon of āelectoral authoritarianismā which is characterized by adopting the trappings of democratic institutions (such as elections,...
A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita."Half-poem,...
Vladimir Sorokinās first published novel, The Queue, is a sly comedy about the late Soviet āyears of stagnation.ā Thousands of citizens are in line for . . . nobody knows quite what, but the rumors...
Who is this Vladimir Putin? Who is this man who suddenly--overnight and without warning--was handed the reigns of power to one of the most complex, formidable, and volatile countries in the world?...
The acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Gogol, Gorki, and Chekhov. In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked...
A New York Review Books OriginalIn 1908, deep in Siberia, it fell to earth. THEIR ICE. A young man on a scientific expedition found it. It spoke to his heart, and his heart named him Bro. Bro felt...
Vladimir Nabokovās earliest major work, written when he was twenty-four, isĀ a full-length play in verse of Shakespearean beauty and richness.The story of an incognito king whose love for the wife of...
One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books 2011Moscow, 2028. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull Andrei Danilovich Komiaga out of his drunken stupor. But waitāthat's just his ring tone...
A major reexamination of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov as "literary gamesman," this book systematically shows that behind his ironic manipulation of narrative and his puzzle-like treatment of detail...
Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first timeāand placed in biographical and literary contextOn October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the...
A cutting-edge neuroscientist and a leading clinical psychologist look to religious, mystical, and mind-altering experience to challenge scientific orthodoxies concerning consciousness.We are nothing...