Russian Life
A Time for Pirogi
Food & Drink
4 min |
January/February 2021
Russian Life
Finding St. Nicholas
To the undiscerning eye, the Turkish city of Demre is not much to look at, let alone stop for. Rows upon rows of greenhouses covered in clear plastic sheeting cover nearly every plot of land. The drab outpost in southwestern Anatolia lacks the luxuriant resorts and Turquoise Coast panache of such places as Bodrum, Marmaris, and Antalya, the latter a renowned haven for Russian vacationers.
7 min |
January/February 2021
Russian Life
A Stove Called Yerofeyich
Auntie Nina even pinched herself in the side, but no – it wasn’t a dream.
8 min |
January/February 2021
The Atlantic
The Making of a Model Minority
Indian Americans rarely stop to ask why our entrance into American society has been so rapid—or to consider what we have in common with other nonwhite Americans.
10+ min |
January - February 2021
The Atlantic
The Second Career of Martellus Bennett
The former NFL tight end writes the kind of children’s books he would have loved as a kid.
10+ min |
January - February 2021
Poets & Writers Magazine
A Life in Poetry
Our sixteenth annual look at debut poets
10+ min |
January - February 2021
Poets & Writers Magazine
Akbar Edits Poetry of the Nation
In September the Nation, a bastion of progressive journalism since 1865, welcomed Kaveh Akbar as its newest poetry editor, succeeding Stephanie Burt and Carmen Giménez Smith.
3 min |
January - February 2021
Poets & Writers Magazine
A New Chapter
The board is very pleased that Melissa accepted our invitation to lead the organization forward.a
3 min |
January - February 2021
Poets & Writers Magazine
Books Offer Lifeline in Incarceration
In the first letter Danny Harris wrote to Gary Fine from solitary confinement, he made what seemed to Fine like a simple request.
5 min |
January - February 2021
Poets & Writers Magazine
Button Chair
The magic of sitting down to play
8 min |
January - February 2021
CBS Watch! Magazine
Culture Shock
Susie Yang makes a strong first impression with her thrilling debut novel, White Ivy.
3 min |
November/December 2020
Reason magazine
Fashion Crimes
When fabulous clothes are outlawed, only outlaws will be fabulous.
10+ min |
January 2021
Russian Life
Russian Chronicles
Leap year problems
10+ min |
November/December 2020
Russian Life
Goa and Greenhouses
A well-to-do Russian tries to bring his green new ideal to life in a Russian village. Not all goes to plan.
6 min |
November/December 2020
Russian Life
Postscript
Another Victim of Sandarmokh
2 min |
November/December 2020
Russian Life
Food & Drink
Taste of the Holidays
3 min |
November/December 2020
Russian Life
Russia's Munchausens
The Legendary Baron Celebrates 300 Years
10+ min |
November/December 2020
Russian Life
In the Winter Palace
In this prologue to Alpsten’s new historical fiction novel, Tsarina, we meet Catherine I at the critical turning point in her life: the death of her husband Peter I (the Great).
6 min |
November/December 2020
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 |