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Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky: The Letter Killers Club

February 22, 2018December 19, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s strange novel, The Letter Killers Club, translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull.

Categories Book Reviews, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Tags 1920s, 1926, NYRB Classics, Russian 7 Comments

Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

January 25, 2019December 9, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich, translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

Categories Book Reviews, Leo Tolstoy Tags 1880s, 1886, Russian 6 Comments

Ivan Turgenev: First Love

September 22, 2017July 3, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Ivan Turgenev’s 1860 novel, First Love, translated from the Russian by Isaiah Berlin.

Categories Book Reviews, Ivan Turgenev Tags 1860, 1860s, Russian 2 Comments
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