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A Partisan Resistance to Migration
Lithuania, once understood in the Western popular imagination as a lawless backwater home to the likes of Hannibal Lecter and human traffickers, has lately enjoyed no small amount of international...
Our Stupid Heroes (The Turkish Gambit 10-11)
One expects a mystery to have a red herring or two, but The Turkish Gambit has enough to field an entire army.
Victory Day at the Soviet Kitchen Table
“Why are you crying, Musya? Because we’re so old?” asks my grandmother, annoyed. “No, no, because it all happened.”
How Pushkin Became a Cat, Part I
An American magazine article from 1936 plainly states that “the name Pushkin is ideal for a cat.” Why?
Matt Taibbi's Not-So-Secret Russian Past
Like the clueless expats they loathed, the editors treated Moscow and its residents as their playground.
Locked Rooms (Murder of the Leviathan Part I)
If the Leviathan were the Titanic, all of the characters would easily find their way to a lifeboat, caring not a whit whether or not Kate Winslet’s heart will go...
How Pushkin Became a Cat, Part II
Sometimes, it turns out, "Pushkin" is simply a fun nickname, in no way “instantly summoning,” as the devoted Gogol put it, “an intimation of Russia’s national poet.”