A Sportsman’s Notebook (also called A Sportsman’s Sketches) contains short vignettes and stories by Ivan […]
The Patriots, by Sana Krasikov
It’s funny that we talk about settling down in a place as putting down roots. […]
Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (translated by Philip Boehm) walks the fine line between fiction […]
The Life of an Unknown Man, by Andreï Makine
While there are no right answers to the question: what are stories for? There are […]
Solovyov and Larionov, by Eugene Vodolazkin
I don’t think that a lot of historians would like to have it pointed out […]
The Goose Fritz, by Sergei Lebedev
Kirill, the protagonist of Sergei Lebedev’s erudite The Goose Fritz, has a gift for imagining the past. […]
Snow in May, by Kseniya Melnik
It’s a little black-hearted, but I suspect that we read stories about hard luck and […]
The Winter of the Witch, by Katherine Arden
Katherine Arden’s amazing Winternight trilogy comes to a satisfying close in The Winter of the Witch. This […]
Vita Nostra, by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
There are some research topics that are perennial at the library. Most of the time, […]
Horsemen of the Sands, by Leonid Yuzefovich
Horsemen of the Sands, written by Leonid Yuzefovich and translated by Marian Schwartz, contains two novellas. […]