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Louis Train reviews the cookbook Supra: A Feast of Georgian Cooking by Tiko Tuskadze.

Louis Train reviews Evgeny Grishkovets's novel The Hemingway Game.

Amanda Sonesson reviews Sergei Lebedev's latest novel, The Goose Fritz, a story about "how the difference between life and death can lie in the specific order of a bunch of letters."

In Homes Away from Home: Jewish Belonging in Twentieth-Century Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg (Stanford University Press), Sarah Wobick-Segev compares the experiences of the Jewish populations [...]

Vladimir Putin, the man, is shrouded in secret, despite the fact that Vladimir Putin, the president, maintains an extraordinarily public profile. What we know about Putin’s biography could barely [...]

Angela Stent’s previous book, The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian relations in the twenty-first century, became the definitive source on U.S.-Russia relations the moment it was published, in [...]

In 2013, Russia’s State Duma unanimously passed a bill criminalizing the  distribution of “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships.” The legislation effectively prohibited public [...]

In The Myth of Triumphalism, Beth A. Fischer aims to set the record straight on triumphalism.

Louis Train reviews new translations of books by Russian politician Grigory Yavlinsky and scholar Sergei Medvedev.

For years, Eliot Borenstein’s previous book, Overkill: sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture, has been my go-to recommendation for colleagues and Russocurious friends who want [...]