Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: “Under Review”
A transcript of the panel discussion "Under Review" — a conversation in the Semipublic Intellectual Sessions, which took place on November 4.
A transcript of the panel discussion "Under Review" — a conversation in the Semipublic Intellectual Sessions, which took place on November 4.
Boris Dralyuk asks Janet Fitch about poetry, film, and her latest novel, “Chimes of a Lost Cathedral,” the continuation of “The Revolution of Marina...
Boris Dralyuk appreciates a “riveting political biography” of Mikhail Sholokhov, “Stalin’s Scribe” by Brian J. Boeck.
Douglas Smith’s new biography of “Mad Monk” Rasputin brings him into the human realm.
Subscribe on iTunes - Listen Live on KPFK Despina Stratigakos, author of Hitler at Home, joins Laurie and co-host Boris Dralyuk for a wide-ranging...
Oliver Ready's translation of Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" shows what reactionary work it was.
Vladimir Nabokov wasn’t born in the USA — and that made his take on America important.
Boris Dralyuk on Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's detective novel.
The lost Russians and found books of Los Angeles.
On Christopher Isherwood and Henri Coulette.
Noir's rap is bleak, nihilistic, hardbitten. But at heart it's a deeply emotional genre and a deeply nostalgic one.
On the grim hardness of a neglected noir master.