You'll Never Walk Alone
A review of Frederic Gros's A Philosophy of Walking
A Sentimental Education
Poet, essayist, translator, activist — Russian writer Kirill Medvedev has worn and taken off many hats
Private Life Drama
Soviet writer Andrei Platonov’s Happy Moscow finds the shortcomings of socialism not in its crushing the individual spirit but timidly preserving it.
Trouble at the Language Lab
Ben Marcus’s novel The Flame Alphabet is a disaster novel about what happens to the avant-garde in the age of the MFA.