Pushkin Press are known for beautifully designed volumes of translated fiction, usually in a smaller format than most paperbacks.  The Queen of Spades and Selected Works by Alexander Pushkin is a gem of a book with its Naples Yellow cover, its fold-over cover and its archival quality paper.  I gave up my precious e-reader for [...]

A new book by by Russian giant of literature Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) seems like a throwback to the 1960s and 70s when the Soviet Empire was threatening the world with nuclear holocaust and American politicians spent their days worrying about the spread of communism.   One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, Cancer Ward, the [...]