The fine literary journal Subtropics has accepted my translation of Vsevolod Benigsen’s “Movsar and the Terrorists,” for publication. The story appeared in Benigsen’s 2011 collection, Pzkhfchshch!
Subtropics has published my translation of Mark Girshin’s “Seaweed Mattress,” a series of vignettes about a childhood spent in Odessa in the 1910s and 1920s, part of his longer memoir, Mosaic. The title refers to the custom there, on the Black Sea, of stuffing mattresses with seaweed rather than straw. In Anastasia Kozak’s interview with [...]
Subtropics has just published my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s “Substance,” one of twelve stories loosely connected by a train theme written for Russian Railroads and recently published by AST in a single volume as Liubov’ v sed’mom vagone (Love in Train Car No. 7).
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.