Thanks to Kyle Semmel of the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland, who has posted an interview with me about Russian literature, Olga Slavnikova’s 2017, and how I translate.
Lizok’s Bookshelf (written by Lisa Hayden Espenschade) has posted an interview with me about some recent translations of mine and even a cheerful thought on the future of foreign literature publishing in this country.
On the heels of the publication of Olga Slavnikova’s 2017 (Overlook) and the paperback edition of Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov (Yale), an interview with me in the Boston Globe.
Last fall, as part of its Reading the World Conversation Series, Open Letter Books invited me to be part of this Translators Roundtable, which brought together four literary translators—who work in a variety of languages and genres—to discuss their experiences. The conversation explored a number of different topics, from how they got started as translators, [...]
Leonard Lopate interviewed me this summer about my new translation of Yuri Olesha’s 1927 novel Envy for his “Underappreciated” series: “When it was published in 1927, Yuri Olesha’s Envy was celebrated by the Soviet establishment as a condemnation of the bourgeois psyche. But two years later Olesha came under suspicion when Communist officials realized that [...]
Listen to my interview with Bill Marx, broadcast on August 15, 2008, for his World Books series on PRI’s The World, about making the "first complete and accurate translation" of White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov’s first novel. An epic story of the Russian civil war, the book anticipates Bulgakov’s masterpiece, The Master and Margarita.
The graphics used on this site were inspired by the work of Liubov Popova (1889-1924), a Russian artist and designer influenced by Constructivism and Futurism, as seen in her biography, by D.V. Sarabianov and N.L. Adaskina, Liubov Popova, translated by Marian Schwartz and published by Harry N. Abrams in 1990.