Product Description: Reminiscent of Bruno Schulz’s Street of Crocodiles, Oleg Woolf’s Bessarabian Stamps — a cycle of 16 stories set mostly in the village of Sanduleni — is a vivid, surreal evocation of a liminal world. Sanduleni’s denizens are in permanent flux, forever shifting languages, cultures, and states (in every sense of the word)...read more

Product Description: The "Storony Sveta" Literary Journal (in Russian) #15 Published by StoSvet Press, New York --------------------------------------------------- The Storony Sveta journal is a part of the StoSvet literary project, which also includes the StoSvet Press publishing house, the Cardinal Points literary journal (in English), the «Union “I”» web portal, and the annual Compass Translation Award (Russian Poetry in English) www...read more

Product Description: This book examines the staggering popularity of early-twentieth-century Russian detective serials. Traditionally maligned as "Pinkertonovshchina," these appropriations of American and British detective stories featuring Nat Pinkerton, Nick Carter, Sherlock Holmes, Ethel King, and scores of other sleuths swept the Russian reading market in successive waves between 1907 and 1917, and famously experienced a "red" resurgence in the 1920s under the aegis of Nikolai Bukharin...read more

Product Description: Opulent, playful, and sensual, Polina Barskova's poems have earned her a reputation as the finest Russian poet under forty. While steeped in Russian and classical culture, Barskova's work remains unmistakably contemporary, at once classic and edgy--always fresh, new and even startling...read more