Russia

Today would have been Vasily Grossman’s birthday and in honour of the occasion, I am trying to fit in a few chapters …

I realised that although two other recent reviews – The Comrade from Milan and Second-Hand Time – mentioned Maria Stepanova’s family history, …

Reading In Memory of Memory made me think about how we consider ours and our relatives’ recollections not only of far-off things, …

When Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2015, the reports noted that English translations of her work were ‘sparse.’ Happily …

In the limbo period of Xmas and New Year I found myself taking several parties of friends and families around the Pool …

Famous opening lines of novels often get bandied about in lists, but it wasn’t until I read From Russia With Love for …