Russian Life
All That Remains
Tracing own family lineage back to 1667
10+ min |
November/December 2020
Rock&Gem Magazine
“Finger Printing” Turquoise
Answering the Question of Provenance
10+ min |
November 2020
Poets & Writers Magazine
Rumaan Alam – Leave the Expectations Behind
In his third novel, Leave the World Behind, published in october by Ecco, Rumaan Alam delivers, a propulsive narrative that speaks to the challenges and crises of the moment – racial injustice, environmental catastrophe, sheltering in place– while defying any expectations of what a novel written by a gay indian american man should be.
10+ min |
November - December 2020
The Atlantic
Ever Thought About Breaking Free, Abandoning Your Responsabilities, Running Away From Your Life?
Toby Dorr's Great Escape
10+ min |
October 2020
New York magazine
Rumaan Alam – Delusions of Whiteness
In Rumaan Alam’s new thriller, a white family staying at a Hamptons Airbnb is startled when the Black owners knock on the door.
10+ min |
September 14 - 27, 2020
Russian Life
Readings
Chicks Rule the Screen Russian women shine in a fresh TV series
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Russian Life
Life is just a bowl of…Raspberries?
MID-JULY CAME ON CHILLY AND WITH RAIN TO SPARE, BUT month’s end was suddenly dry and warm. That gave the wild raspberries, which usually ripened in early August, an unexpected influx of the mysteriously delicate juice that make them so very different from the fragrant but bland garden raspberries. So the gals, without so much as a word to each other, started making forays into the closest of the raspberry patches that in the past couple of years had run rampant over the felled areas of the forest. After the nearest mile or two had been picked clean, they put their heads together and started going in threes, in fives, because the forest doesn’t care for any tomfoolery.
6 min |
September/October 2020
Russian Life
Russian Chronicles
An illustrated page from the Russian Chronicle, showing the Battle of the Ugra River.The “Battle” of the Ugra River
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Russian Life
Under Review
GOOD CITIZENS NEED NOT FEAR
6 min |
September/October 2020
Russian Life
In Search of Terra Incognita
The risk one runs in exploring these unknown and Icy Seas is so very great, that I can be bold to say, that no man will ever venture farther than I have done and that the lands which may lie to the South will never be explored. ~ British Captain James Cook
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Russian Life
LIFE IN ISOLATION
The universal quarantining and self-isolating due to COVID-19 has put millions of people in something of a predicament. Every day is the same as the one before, and sometimes we can’t even get together with our closest family members. But for a few, being solitary is a way of life. And so we decided to touch base with people in remote corners of Russia who, because of their jobs or the unique features of their culture, socialize with only a narrow circle of people, yet somehow never feel lonely.
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Russian Life
Food & Drink
How to Start a Fall Day
3 min |
September/October 2020
The Atlantic
Culture & Critics - “How Did I End Up Like This?”
Seamus Heaney’s journey into darkness
6 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Essay – “No Novel About Any Black Woman Could Ever Be the Same After This”
That’s how Toni Morrison described Gayl Jones’s first book in 1975. Jones has published to great acclaim and experienced unspeakable tragedy. Now she is releasing her first novel in more than 20 years.
10+ min |
September 2020
Poets & Writers Magazine
Writing in Spanish Elevates Academia
An estimated fifty-three million Spanish speakers live in the United States.
5 min |
September - October 2020
Poets & Writers Magazine
Hashtag Highlights Anti-Black Bias
The month of June brought the continuation of daily protests around the United States, and the world, in recognition of violence against Black people and the importance of Black lives.
4 min |
September - October 2020
Poets & Writers Magazine
Nate Marshall – Transformation
In his second collection, Finna, Nate Marshall explores the failures and triumphs of language, the power of community, and abolition as a poetic praxis.
10+ min |
September - October 2020
The Atlantic
What to Do About William Faulkner
A white man of the Jim Crow South, he couldn’t escape the burden of race, yet derived creative force from it.
10 min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
David Coppereld 's Wild Ride
Armando Iannucci’s mad, loving, and brilliant adaptation of Dickens’s novel
6 min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
Looking For Frederick Douglass
How a visit to his birthplace helped me understand this moment in America
10+ min |
September 2020
Archaeology
Anubian Kingdom Rises
Excavations at a city on the Nile reveal the origins of an ancient African power
10+ min |
September/October 2020
The Oldie Magazine
What a Dame!
The late Vera Lynn – Oldie of the Year in 2018 and a great friend to the magazine – wrote her last piece for us in May, aged 103
4 min |
August 2020
The Oldie Magazine
Profitable Wonders: Batting for bats
Besides elegantly wielding his bat at the crease, former England Captain David Gower is a long-standing admirer of the other, flying version.
3 min |
August 2020
The Oldie Magazine
Christopher Robin did adore his bear
He told me he loved Winnie-the-Pooh – and his father, AA Milne
4 min |
August 2020
New York magazine
A Plague is an Apocalypse But It Can Bring a New World
The meaning of this one is in our hands.
10+ min |
July 20 - August 02, 2020
Russian Life
Under Review
BOOKS FOR THE GREAT PAUSE
4 min |
July/August 2020
Russian Life
The Romance of the Earth
Half a century ago, the profession of geologist was both popular and revered in Russia, shrouded in a halo of romance and adventure. Indeed, it was not unusual for the lives of these explorers of subterranean mysteries to be immortalized in motion pictures, or for songs to be written about them.
7 min |
July/August 2020
Russian Life
The Thimble
Pashka Bystrov, known around the village as Speedy, was leaning back against the warm stove and despondently watching his wife, Galka. Her hair still in curlers, she was tossing her dresses, skirts, and fleece tights into a suitcase, wadding up her feather-light stockings, and yelling at him that she was sick up to here, and then some, with village life, and she wanted to hear her heels tapping on asphalt and get a proper salon perm.
8 min |
July/August 2020
Russian Life
“Painting Jesus Isn't Dangerous”
Orthodox Street Art in Contemporary Russia
10+ min |
July/August 2020
Russian Life
Journeys through the Russian Empire
WILLIAM CRAFT BRUMFIELD Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky traveled throughout Russia prior to the Revolution, photographing churches and mosques, railways and monasteries, towns and remote natural landscapes. His images are now archived at the Library of Congress. William Brumfield has recreated Prokudin-Gorsky’s journeys and photographed those same sites today and the photos are laid out side by side int his new book – a testament to two brilliant photographers whose work prompts and illuminates, monument by monument, questions of conservation, restoration, and cultural identity and memory.
6 min |