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Yelena Khanga, Belonging, and Blackness in Russia
Early in Episode 694 of the This American Life podcast, "Get Back to Where You Once Belonged," hosts Emanuele Berry and Ira Glass are watching clips from the 1936 Soviet...
Review: Vijay Menon's "A Brown Man in Russia"
In 2013, twenty-year-old Duke undergraduate Vijay Menon embarked on a train journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway from Russia to Mongolia. He subsequently gave a TEDx talk about this trip and...
Review: Olga Zilberbourg's English-Language Debut, "Like Water and Other Stories"
In both content and form, Zilberbourg’s "Like Water" expands the boundaries of Russian-American fiction, showing new ways of writing immigrant lives.
Open Letter on the Termination of Russian Studies Faculty at Ohio University
Like you, we are wholeheartedly invested in the survival and recovery of higher education in the United States amid the COVID-19 pandemic. That recovery depends on the will of universities...
Literature and Reality, with Robert Chandler
On a trip to Moscow to meet with Vasily Grossman’s granddaughter, Robert Chandler recalled seeing a room with Grossman’s things. There, the translator was shocked to see the same line...
Notre Dame de Russian Social Media Bullsh*t
Ksenia Sobchak has revealed her true colors.