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The Troubadour of Honed Banality
Sergei Dovlatov (right) with Alexander Genis (smoking) at Novy Americanets office. Photo by Nina Alovert, 1980. A., my girlfriend, is originally from Moscow. Her mother lives around the corner from us...
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Orwell at the BBC, and Other News
It was all the rage! On the eighteenth-century literary vogue for suicides. “It’s pretty much all hopeless,” and other advice on writing a memoir. (Personally, I would say: throw in a few recipes.)...
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New Emotion: On Kirill Medvedev
In 2006, a leading Moscow publisher issued Texts Published Without the Permission of the Author, comprised of the works of a well-known Russian poet. Rather than a lawsuit, the book resulted in a...
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What We’re Loving: Aliens and Birds
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The Resurrection of Joseph Brodsky
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Malthusian Flotsam and Unspeakable Jetsam, and Other News
Photo: Kirk Crawford.Jim Harrison has died at seventy-eight. “You don’t write—an artist doesn’t create, or very rarely creates—good art in support of different causes,” he told The Paris Review in...
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I Feel Like Chicken Tonight, and Other News
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The Troubadour of Honed Banality
Sergei Dovlatov (right) with Alexander Genis (smoking) at Novy Americanets office. Photo by Nina Alovert, 1980. A., my girlfriend, is originally from Moscow. Her mother lives around the corner from us...
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Orwell at the BBC, and Other News
It was all the rage! On the eighteenth-century literary vogue for suicides. “It’s pretty much all hopeless,” and other advice on writing a memoir. (Personally, I would say: throw in a few recipes.)...
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New Emotion: On Kirill Medvedev
In 2006, a leading Moscow publisher issued Texts Published Without the Permission of the Author, comprised of the works of a well-known Russian poet. Rather than a lawsuit, the book resulted in a...
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“Repressed Soviet writers had the chance to become political heroes, even when (as in the case of Joseph Brodsky, for instance) their writing was not explicitly political. Every ‘unofficial’ story or...
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Conversing with Brodsky, and Other News
Amazon has launched a juggernaut of a Kindle store in Australia. The Joseph Brodsky reading list for facilitating intelligent conversation. Alison Bechdel on heading to Broadway. Writing for good...
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The Resurrection of Joseph Brodsky
Mikhail Baryshnikov’s new “anti-ballet.” Image via New Riga Theatre At the New Riga Theatre, before a recent performance of Mikhail Baryshnikov’s new one-man show, Brodsky / Baryshnikov, women combed...
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Malthusian Flotsam and Unspeakable Jetsam, and Other News
Photo: Kirk Crawford. Jim Harrison has died at seventy-eight. “You don’t write—an artist doesn’t create, or very rarely creates—good art in support of different causes,” he told The Paris Review in...
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I Feel Like Chicken Tonight, and Other News
Who doesn’t? In 1858, Walt Whitman made an impassioned contribution to a series called Manly Health and Training, a kind of precursor to the self-help movement. In the piece, newly rediscovered, he...
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