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“Flood, deluge, mass psychosis.” How the Soviet Union fell for Erich Maria Remarque
Tomorrow’s Tolstoy: publisher Yelena Shubina on the wait for a great novel about contemporary Russia
Kolyma Stories: read Varlam Shalamov’s brutally moving fragments of life in Siberia’s gulags
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Akram Aylisli: how one Azerbaijani writer dealt with a book burning campaign against him
The meteoric rise of Olga Tokarczuk, Poland’s pre-eminent novelist
Element 174: lose yourself in this queer sci-fi from Bishkek
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Yevgeny Vodolazkin: Russia’s prize-winning novelist on Orthodoxy, death and playing with time
Daša Drndić: reflecting on the life and literature of Croatia’s most courageous writer
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