Lev Rubinstein: Ordinary Life through the Lens of Russian Conceptualism, by Daria Shchukina On Translation [email protected] Tue, 04/16/2024 - 15:38 Photos by Natalia SenatorovaIn the following appreciation, the author compares the poetry of... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-04-16 20:38:33 UTC ]
No, the origins of Tetris didn't involve a high-speed car chase, but the true story behind the game still reads like a spy novel. There's corporate intrigue, nefarious government agencies and an envious amount of globe-trotting. But the reality wasn't enough for the creative minds behind Apple's... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-03-30 12:30:20 UTC ]
A welcome revival of a 1980s comedy prophesying the collapse of the Soviet UnionHere is a revival of a 1983 film from the Georgian director Eldar Shengelaia (still alive at 90) and it is revealed as an intriguing, and perhaps even remarkable creation: a dapper, droll satire on Soviet... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-02-06 13:00:00 UTC ]
Natasha Pulley grounds her latest novel in a 20th-century event: a 1957 nuclear explosion in the Soviet Union. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-07-24 12:00:32 UTC ]
Viking has snared a “definitive” history of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's plan for the invasion of the Soviet Union, from broadcaster and author Jonathan Dimbleby. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-17 07:17:20 UTC ]
In “The Lenin Plot” Barnes Carr tells the mostly unknown story of America’s intervention in the earliest days of the Soviet Union. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-10-06 09:00:10 UTC ]
Hay Festival Digital will feature performances, discussions, and interactive Q&As with over 100 of the world’s greatest writers and thinkers. It will stream online from 22 – 31 May 2020.The opening gala, produced by Hay Festivals in association with the British Council, and AHRC, celebrates... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-05-06 14:45:31 UTC ]
The Soviet Union’s fall shapes the Russian leader’s espionage aims, Gordon Corera writes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-04-10 12:00:00 UTC ]
“Young Heroes of the Soviet Union,” by Alex Halberstadt, is a moving and often funny memoir about the author’s family and their history. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-03-11 16:29:22 UTC ]
WHEN I WAS a student in Perm, Russia, my university friend told me that her grandparents were kulaks. The term dates back to the era of collectivization, a harsh agrarian reform that took place in the Soviet Union between the late 1920s and the early ’30s. Hitherto privately owned land and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-12-14 18:00:21 UTC ]
Aleen Kuperman is co-founder and CEO at Betches Media. The company has grown from a blog created in a dorm room at Cornell in 2011 to a sprawling media network including nine podcasts, New York Times-bestselling books and millions of Instagram followers. In this episode of the “Ad Block”... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-10-18 09:01:00 UTC ]
Robert L. Bernstein, a publishing executive and human rights activist who presided over a generation of dynamic growth at Random House and advocated for dissidents around the world, from the Soviet Union to Argentina, has died after a brief illness. He was 96. The tall, sandy-haired... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-29 20:40:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction was announced today at the El-Hakawati Palestinian National Theatre in East Jerusalem. The IPAF - often referred to as the ‘Arabic Booker’ - is an annual literary prize for prose fiction, which encourages the readership of... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-02-05 16:33:45 UTC ]
In preparation for Russia's Victory Day celebration, to be held May 9 to commemorate the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany, the country is cracking down on anything displaying the Nazi swastika – including the cover of Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel 'Maus.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Wed, 08/06/2011 - 15:12 HarperPress has bought an offbeat travel guide, charting a journey to the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, the dried out Aral Sea and the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Soviet Union's answer to Cape Canaveral.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The current crop of Russian publishers is collectively on the young side, many of them born shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Then, teething problems were many and the growth path rocky at times. But today these publishers produce nearly 120,000 new titles per year,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]