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2024
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Review of Putin's Dark Ages: Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia by
Dina Khapaeva. Russian Review 83, no. 4.
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2024
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“The Uncanny Coincidences of the Russian Joyce,” review of All Future Plunges into Past by José Vergara.
The James Joyce Literary Supplement 37, no. 1.
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2024
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“The Collective Voice,” short essay in The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature,
eds. Simon Franklin, Rebecca Reich, and Emma Widdis, Cambridge UP.
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2024
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“Literature in Film,” short essay in The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature,
eds. Simon Franklin, Rebecca Reich, and Emma Widdis, Cambridge UP.
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2024
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“Kremlin he-man: Vladimir Putin's camp homophobia,” The Times Literary Supplement,
Feb 9, 5.
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2023
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“The battle to shape the memory of Soviet history,” The Times Literary Supplement,
Jul 7, 5.
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2022
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Review of Medea directed by Aleksandr Zeldovich. Slavic Review 81, no. 1.
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2019
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“Medieval Knights in Central Moscow” and
“Magic and Dragons and Swords, Oh My! Affect and the Medieval.” Two-part series. All the Russias Blog, NYU, September 3–5.
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2019
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The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Russia, eds. Colleen McQuillen and
Julia Vaingurt. The Russian Review, Vol. 78, No. 3 (Jul): 514–15.
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2019
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What Does It Mean To Be Post-Soviet: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire
by Madina Tlostanova. Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 63, No. 2 (Summer): 320–21.
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2018
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The Rehearsals by Vladimir Sharov, trans. Oliver Ready. The Russian Review, Vol. 77, No. 4 (Oct): 652–53.
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2017
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Ludmila Ulitskaya and the Art of Tolerance by Elizabeth A. Skomp and
Benjamin M. Sutcliffe. Modern Language Review, Vol. 112, Pt. 3 (Jul): 757–58.
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2016
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The Target (Mishen’), dir. Aleksandr Zeldovich. Tolstoy Studies Journal, Special Issue: “Tolstoy in the Twenty-First Century”: 137–38.
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2016
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The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism by Douglas Rogers. Ulbandus, vol. 17: 187–89.
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2015
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“Totalitarian Sprawl,” review of The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya,
trans. Polly Gannon. Public Books, Nov.
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2014
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“The Other Side of the Looking Glass,”
review of The Symmetry Teacher by Andrei Bitov, trans. Polly Gannon. Public Books, Dec.
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2014
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Down Among the Fishes by Natalka Babina, trans. Jim Dingley. World Literature Today, Aug.
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2014
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“Russia is No More,” review of Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin. Public Books, Jun.
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2014
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Snow Germans by Dmitry Vachedin, trans. Arch Tait. World Literature Today, Mar.
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2013
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Petroleum Venus by Alexander Snegirev, trans. Arch Tait. World Literature Today, Nov.
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2013
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Read.Russia! An Anthology of New Voices ed. by Elena Shubina.
Publishing Research Quarterly, 29.3, Sep.
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2013
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A Displaced Person: The Later Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
by Vladimir Voinovich, trans. Andrew Bromfield. World Literature Today, Sep.
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2013
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Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin, trans. Marian Schwartz. World Literature Today, Mar.
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In the 1990s, Russia's fledgling capitalist book industry decided it desperately needed a bestseller
list, or at least so thought the editors of the industry newspaper Knizhnoe obozrenie (The Book Review).
By November 1993, that newspaper had launched the first bestseller lists in Russian literature. The lists
started as small notices in the bottom corner of page 2, but soon blossomed into full-page features. They
ran throughout the 1990s. (You can read my article on the development of these lists
here.)
Over the last several years, I've collected a full set of these lists, and with the help of two Georgetown
research assistants, Amelia Benjamin and Nina Armstrong, created a data set based on them. The data set is
open source (you can download it here), but I
wanted to present some of it here.