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Family Business

by David Lipsky,

Mr. and Mrs. Nabokov’s half-century

Oath of the Elbe

From Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich, edited by Walter Kempowski, out this month from W. W. Norton. On April 25, 1945, Soviet…

The Social Nyetwork

From a 2014 internal report by the Internet Research Agency, a company based in St. Petersburg, Russia, that generates anti-American propaganda. The agency hired dozens of people to leave comments…

Polivanov’s Dream

by Serena Vitale,Translated by Jamie Richards,

From a response by the Russian literary critic Viktor Shklovsky (1893–1984) to a question by Serena Vitale, during an interview in Moscow in December 1978. Yevgeni Polivanov, who like Shklovsky…

The Murder of Leo Tolstoy

by Elif Batuman,

A forensic investigation

Paper Pushkin

by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin,Translated by Simona Schneider,

From two 1824 letters by Aleksandr Pushkin to Aleksandr Kaznacheev. The first is in response to an assignment to investigate the extermination of locusts that Pushkin refused to undertake; the…

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