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Daughters of Magic Mothers
A captivating feat of imagination, Jennifer imagines the mother she never had. The biological daughter of a Russian pianist, she writes her into her life.
Cosmonaut Olga Returns from Space
“Problems begin on the flight to Frankfurt.” Today’s #StorySunday USA is “Cosmonaut Olga Returns from Space” by Maxim Matusevich.
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On exploring a river from Mongolia to Russia
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #99: Russia
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We're delighted to see Richard House longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. We published this short story by Richard back in 2010, a compelling slice of obsession and loss. ...
Nonfiction: Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room by Geoff Dyer
What really changes our way of appreciating and consuming culture, however, is the concept of time, which has changed over the decades. On one end there’s “Tarkovsky-time”, and on the ...
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Litro #99: Russia
The Journey by artist Iryna Yermolova will be showing at Red Gate Gallery, London, throughout October.
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Fishing for Crab in Arctic Russia by Adam Butler
It works like this: During crab season, October until March, boats go out every day (bearing in mind that ‘day’, during many of these months, is a fairly arbitrary concept ...
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Forty Rubles by Peter Hajinian
Your Honour: This is my confession, not of murder, but of the events that led to the death of Vladimir Gargarovich Karpuk. Though I was present, I can attest it ...
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Russian Strays by William Falo
“It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts – more clearly than in ...
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Ipatiev House by Louise Phillips
Butka: A priest visits the village once a month to perform the Sacred Mysteries. On the first Sunday in March he is very late for a baptism. It gets stuffy ...
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Free by Polina Klyukina
The Simferopol train and dusty wool blankets. The train conductor with her tangled black locks and her bowing-and-scraping “shh” in the phrase “Hush now, girls, hush now;” the clinking of ...