Russia
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Babushka Z CosplayThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A Ukrainian great-grandmother inadvertently becomes a pro-Russian icon.
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Moscow on the MedThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Two winters in Istanbul. If you are a holder of a Russian passport, there are few places in the Western hemisphere that you can go without a visa.
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Ice queens, sex machinesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Insofar as erotica can ever be about something, what is Russia-themed erotica about?
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Five uneasy piecesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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How I stopped being an older brother (& other stories)
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« My ghost, we do no batshit »This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On the untranslatability of Ukrainian jokes
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WHOOOOThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A story about a lonely railway guard on a desolate steppe. « In the cursed August of 1991 the radio informed Kasatonov that there was a state of emergency in the capital. Then it fell silent, as if the receiver had broken. »
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When the world makes rags of usThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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He spoke of painting like a starving man speaks of food. On Józef Czapski, Memories of Starobielsk and the art of observation.
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Of human children & language children
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The first word I ever wrote was stsikukha: « pisser ». This is how my nanny Frosya called me to my face. On poetry and pathos in a bastard tongue.
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Ukraine yesterday & tomorrow
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Ukraine didn’t become an epicenter of world history all of a sudden; it became an epicenter again.
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Woman is spaceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« Space », or prostranstvo, is a key word for understanding the literary and philosophical history of Russia. Oksana Vasyakina’s Rana (Wound), a Siberian road novel, remakes the Russian landscape and the Russian novel for women’s worlds. It renders prostranstvo unruly, polysemous, queer.
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Firsts in spaceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A friend of mine likes to say that the moon landing was real, but dumb. On astronautical tokenism.