This anthology presents Russian prose by a new generation. The authors, who come from various parts of Russia, never lived in the Soviet Union. They are free of the Soviet legacy. They have no nostalgia and do not resonate to the sort of art that attempts to turn everything Soviet into vintage chic. And unlike many older writers, they are not fighting the Soviet past. more

I contributed the translation of a wonderfully entertaining story by Aleksei Lukyanov, which begins: “The crisis caught the RailTrans management with its pants down.”