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Kiss and Tell

From a letter written by Marina Tsvetaeva to Boris Pasternak in 1927. Tsvetaeva (1892–1941) was a poet. The letter was included in the February issue of the PN Review. Translated…

Everything That Rises

by John Crowley,

I have come to perceive a cosmos filled with superintelligent beings — a virtually infinite number of them, whose minds have transcended their earthbound bodies and are independent of any…

Putin’s Double

by Emmanuel Carrère,

By Emmanuel Carrère, from Limonov, to be published in October by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Carrère’s books include The Adversary, My Life as a Russian Novel, and Lives Other Than…

From the introduction to the catalogue of Art4.ru, a contemporary-art museum in Moscow owned by Igor Markin. The museum, in which Markin, a forty-one-year-old plastics magnate, invested $10 million, houses…