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“Intense Lyricism” of Slavnikova’s 2017

Karen Vanuska, in her “writer's journal of her reading and writing life,” has posted a flattering review of my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s 2017: It wouldn't be summer if I didn't pick up a Russian novel.  Though I received my review copy of 2017 by Olga Slavnikova back in March, I decided to save it for [...]

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Slavnikova’s 2017 at barnesandnoblereview.com

Anna Mundow gives a glowing review of my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s 2017 at barnesandnoblereview.com: Olga Slavnikova’s profound new novel 2017 evokes, with uncanny vividness, a Russia of the near-future in which a character reasonably wonders  “…how much about human beings is human?” . . . To read the rest, click here.

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Publishers Weekly Gives Moscow Noir a Star

PW has given Moscow Noir (Akashic Books) a starred review and mentions Anuchkin’s “Field of a Thousand Corpses,” one of several I translated for the anthology: As literary agents Smirnova and Goumen note in their introduction to this excellent entry in Akashic's noir series, “A noir tradition does not yet really exist in Russia.” Still, they [...]

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Praise for Olga Slavnikova’s 2017

Lots of good reviews have come in for my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s “rambunctious” (as Donna Seaman describes it for Booklist) novel, 2017: Seaman writes one of the most accurate descriptions of the book I’ve read: Strange things are happening in the rugged Riphean Mountains in this rambunctious novel of Russian society 100 years after the revolution, [...]

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Kyle Semmel on Slavnikova’s 2017 for Three Percent

Kyle Semmel of the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland, has given my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s 2017—just out from Overlook Press—a very nice review indeed: It’s hard not to think of twentieth-century Russian history as you crack open 2017, Olga Slavnikova’s Russian Booker Prize winning novel. The year 2017 will mark, of course, the 100th anniversary [...]

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Humor in the Human Condition

On the occasion of Yale University Press’s paperback edition of Oblomov, Katherine A. Powers has a glowing review in the Boston Globe: The expression “great comic novel” attached to a title usually causes me to drop everything and rush off to the library to secure what I consider to be one of the prime reasons for [...]

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