Books

Both texts return us to Kundera’s much-missed living presence. Subtle and full of wit and irony, 89 Words followed by Prague, A Disappearing Poem is an homage to a literary legend and a reminder of just how prescient his words and insights are today.

In the definitive history on the subject, Frederick Taylor weaves together official history, archival materials, and personal accounts to tell the complete story of the Wall's rise and fall.

With beautiful pacing and emotionally astute moments, this small story succeeds brilliantly in structuring an identification between small cat and child that will have young readers returning to this book again and again.

Osip Mandelshtam, arguably the greatest Russian poet of the 20th century, died in a Stalinist prison camp at the age of 47. This volume collects the best of his work, including poems he was unable to publish in his lifetime.

In Soviet Scientific Institutes photographer Eric Lusito takes us on a journey through time, space and science. Gigantic control panels, monumental telescopes, inexplicable machinery, it is the first visual account of this once closed world.

A gorgeous 2027 calendar selection of Mucha's Art Nouveau masterworks. 

Full of talk, philosophical speculation and dark humor, this sweeping, intricately structured novel challenges the form even as it presents a highly original view of the world and the former Soviet Union.

Joseph Brodsky's Nativity Poems are beautifully translated and presented in English in their entirety in a beautiful, edition illustrated with Mikhail Lemkhin's photographs of winter-time St. Petersburg.

A poem by Alexander Solzhenitsyn from 1950. 

A Part of Speech contains poems from the years 1965-1978, translated by various hands.
"Like the Auden who was, no less than Lowell, his champion, Brodsky is a master of traditional forms." - The New York Times Book Review

Brodsky writes in Watermark that water “stores our reflections for when we are long gone.” This edition of one of Brodsky’s most important titles allows the reader to visit the canals of Brodsky’s Venice and rediscover the reflection of Brodsky himself.

These 12'' x 12'' square wall calendars contain vintage images of Soviet posters on card stock paper.