In this issue: Leonid Latynin ‘The Face-Maker and the Muse’. This 1978 Russian novel is about an artist who lives in ‘the city,’ a dystopian hell whose citizens are identified only by numbers - unless they happen to look like an idealized face called ‘the image’ - created by the eponymous Face-Maker - in which case they receive a name and certain privileges. Plastic surgery, of course, plays...

akanin ‘The Safety-valve’, Sergei Task ‘S.O.B.’, ‘Four Knights Opening’, Nina Gabrielian ‘Happiness’, ‘The Studio Apartment’. Transfiguration: Feminist Journal and Club in Russia, Ergali Ger ‘Electric Liza’, Dmitry Prigov ‘Poems, Drawings, Thoughts’. The Poet and Family Values: Mayakovsky and Lily Brik, The Last Émigré: Berberova and Khodasevich. The First Gay Publishing House Flourishing,...

In this issue: Marina Filatova ‘If I Were a Man…’, Svetlana Vasilenko ‘Shamara’, Nina Sadur from ‘Witch's Tears’, Marina Palei ‘The Bloody Women's Ward’, Galina Scherbakova ‘The Three Loves of Masha Peredreeva’, Larissa Miller ‘A Childhood in Post-War Moscow’, Elena Glinka ‘Kolyma Streetcar’, Julia Latynina ‘Waiting for the Golden Age’. Poetry: Nina Iskrenko, Elena Schwartz. The issue is...

In this issue: Vladimir Makanin ‘The Captive of the Caucasus’, Victor Pelevin ‘The Tambourine for the Upper World’, Vassily Aksyonov ‘Palmer's First Flight’, ‘Palmer's Second Flight’, Zinovy Zinik ‘The Moth’, Alexander Terekhov ‘The Rat Killer’, ‘Happiness’, Mark Shatunovsky ‘The Discrete Continuity of Love’. 1995 Booker winners: Georgy Vladimov ‘A General and His Army’, Oleg Pavlov ‘An...

Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place 'one of the most colorful in the U.S. 'and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (& writers who didn't write), mystics seeking...

За все в этой жизни нужно заплатить. За мимолетные минуты славы, богатство и за многое другое поплатился главный герой нашей книги. Как он потом понял ни деньги, ни известность не могут заменить чувства, которые испытывает человек, испытывающий любовь, радость, человеческое счастье. Дойдя до вершины славы, герой заплатил главным в жизни – своим сердцем. Смерть ходит за ним по пятам. Кто может...

In this issue: Maria Arbatova ‘Equation with Two Knowns’, ‘My Teachers’, Nina Gabrielyan ‘the Lilac Dressing Gown’, Dina Rubina ‘On Upper Maslovka’, Irina Muravyova ‘In Kroporkinskaya Street’, ‘The Forgotten Woman’, Irina Polianskaya ‘The Pure Zone’, Liudmila Petrushevskaya ‘Fairy Tales for Grownup Children’, Larissa Miller ‘Springrime in Vroad Daylight’, poems.