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Time Wasting

by Oleg Sentsov,Translated by Kate Tsurkan, Daisy Gibbons,

From Chronicle of a Hunger Striker, which is forthcoming from Deep Vellum. Sentsov was arrested in 2014 for protesting the Russian annexation of his native Crimea, and spent five years…

Buried in the Sand

by Tahar Ben Jelloun,Translated by Linda Coverdale,

From The Punishment, which was published in April by Yale University Press in its Margellos World Republic of Letters series. Originally published by Éditions Gallimard, the book recounts the author’s…

Interrogation

by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzheniëtìsyn,

If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years…