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The Ballad of Sonya and Louie: An Immigrant Story
I had thought my family was Russian, but then when I went to college, I found out we were just Jews.
Conversation in the Kitchen: Sasha Dugdale’s Voiced Translation of Maria Stepanova
Some may argue that there is a conflict of interest in translating a friend, but Sasha Dugdale’s deft translations of Maria Stepanova, with whom she is close, suggest that friendship...
"Socialist Orientalism: Aleksandr Rodchenko’s and Varvara Stepanova’s Ten Years of Uzbekistan", a talk with Nariman Skakov
Rodchenko and Stepanova’s album “Ten Years of Uzbekistan” was commissioned and produced in 1933, with the intent of producing a luxurious folio to commemorate the tenth-year anniversary of the Uzbek...
Rasputin's Penis: The Documentary (Part II)
After a while, all we could think about was Rasputin’s penis, which acquired a strange significance for us.
Rasputin's Penis: The Documentary (Part I)
All we could confirm was this: in the late 1990s, a man named Michael Augustine purchased a storage locker that turned out to be belong to Marie Rasputin — Rasputin’s...
Tweets in the Fog: Time and the Crime and Punishment End Game
Once Raskolnikov confesses, then what happens?
Russia's Relations with the West one Year after the US Presidential Elections
One year after the US presidential elections, what is the current state of US-Russian/Eurasian relations and what can we expect for the future?
The St. George's Ribbon and National Insanity
Today’s owner of a German car shares his identity with his grandfather, who fought the Nazis.
Regarding the Pain of Others: Tweeting Book V of Crime & Punishment
How do you tweet “pauper’s pride”?
Between Soviet Homeland and Yiddish Cosmos: Yevgeniy Fiks at the Stanton Street Shul
Yevgeniy Fiks’ solo exhibition “Himl un erd: Yiddish Cosmos” at Stanton Street Shul in New York (on view Sundays from 1–6pm, Mondays & Wednesdays from 4–7 pm, November 18–December 16)...
Tweets of a Ridiculous Man: Rethinking the Narrative Structure of Crime and Punishment through Twitter
My biggest quandary was how to treat the conversation between Raskolnikov and Porfiry.
Diary of a Tweeter: On Golyadkin, Raskolnikov, and the Search for Empathy
I broke one of the @RodionTweets rules.
Wright's Wrongs: Filming and Failing Anna Karenina
They couldn't have reproduced all of Tolstoy's intricate balance, but they could certainly have tried harder.
Crime, Punishment, and Kanye West
The more I thought about it the truer it seemed, that Kanye was the Dostoevsky of our time.
Exegi Monumentum Aere Perennius: Poetry as Memory in Ukraine and Beyond
To say that contemporary literature engages with issues of memory may sound banal. In both prose and poetry, memory is everywhere. And when it comes to scholarship, the "memory boom"...
Ideas That Plague Us: Reading “Crime and Punishment” as a Pandemic Narrative, Part II
It is ironic that Raskolnikov justifies selecting the old woman as his victim because she is economically unproductive and sick. Raskolnikov is himself perpetually ill, does not work, and relies on charity from the women in his life.