A powerful, anxiety-filled documentary captures the final breaths of independent Russian journalism.

Reviewing a new volume of Chekhov's earliest work, on the writer's 166th birthday.

In which we review two books: one full of poetry, another full of Putin.

A review of a new collection of Leskov's stories, and a new translation of Sollogub.

We review Good Citizens Need Not Fear, by Maria Reva, and Fandango and Other Stories, by Alexander Grin.

Translation is an art, not a science. And translating Chekhov is a particularly challenging art.

Two reviewers evaluate Catherine the Great through a gender and a storytelling lens.

“The Last Czars” is a wolf in sheep’s clothing: disingenuous, deceitful hagiography masquerading as history.

For Cosmonautics Day 2019, Anna Radchenko directs a surreal meditation on space. Watch the complete film on Russian Life.

Redemption is grim, shocking, and rooted in the author's own tragic history. Yet, true to its name, it is a powerful story of redemption.

I can’t imagine a cleverer or more perverse way of presenting “the first political biography” of Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-1975) than as if from the conscience-addled Sholokhov’s perspective.

Reviews of five interesting new books for Russophiles: Former People, Nevsky, St. Petersburg Noir, Wooden Churches and Russian Film Posters.