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Baltic literature
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have a rich literary tradition that has only recently been picked up by the English-language world. From reckonings with the Soviet past to madcap wartime tales and dreamlike digressions, here are eight of the best recent books available in translation
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Yuri Slezkine’s epic history of the revolution, from 1917 to Trump -
Maria Alyokhina’s memoir is a call to arms against corruption and injustice -
An essay on the ‘Russian cottage’ and its place in the country’s imagination -
13 things you probably didn't know about the Lolita novelist -
A lost Yiddish utopia for Ukraine and its afterlife in modern-day Kharkiv -
These are the New East books you need to take on holiday this year -
Read an extract from the activist author's new book, The Dilemmas of Lenin -
Pajtim Statovci’s deep dive into Albanian identity politics -
An extract from Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk's mythical new book -
Meet the director bringing Russian literature to life onscreen -
The best contemporary fiction to add to your reading list -
The 8 most spectacular libraries of the New East -
12 dystopian novels from the New East that are eerily relatable today -
The best contemporary fiction to add to your reading list -
What can László Krasznahorkai's novels tell us about the refugee crisis? -
Why you should read Svetlana Alexievich -
The fantasy novels of Victor Pelevin reveal the reality of modern Russia -
The underground literature night taking Russia by storm -
Reflections on an Indian childhood reading Soviet hardbacks -
The Russian-Jewish-American-post-Soviet-immigrant-New York novel -
Russian literature and cultural diversity in Ukraine -
Russia's best new independent bookshops -
A new chapter for Moscow's revamped libraries -
Owen Hatherley on a lost generation of Yiddish writers