Free Samples

W.W. Norton has released a new translation, by Michael Katz, of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s classic novel. We excerpt here the novel’s opening.

A tale of two long distance road races – Russia’s oldest and its most prestigious – and what they tell us about the state of running and fitness in Russia.

War births poetry. We share five recently created and translated anti-war poems.

An excerpt from Benson Bobrick’s new book, a memoir of his life and work as a writer.

Catherine I finds herself at a turning point upon the death of her husband, Peter the Great.

American bees are dying from mysterious causes, putting our agriculture at risk for lack of pollinators. Russian bees might be part of a solution.

We are all daily shaken and unsettled by the fire hose of bad news from Russia and Ukraine, and we all would love “something good, loving, and light from Russia to counterbalance the darkness, the senseless brutality, and the horrors perpetrated by Russian hands in Ukraine.”

Is Russia somehow different from other nations, or is it just like any other?