Literature

Rosemary Sullivan writes a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history’s most monstrous dictators—her father, Josef Stalin.

Provocative, witty, and intensely personal, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed cracks open a paradoxical world that through its rejection of capitalism and commoditization ends up fetishizing both.

The shorter works of one of the world’s greatest writers, including the classics The Gambler and Notes From the Underground.

The brilliant shorter novels of Tolstoy, including The Death of Ivan Ilych and Family Happiness, collected and reissued with a beautiful updated design.

Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer introduces readers to the village of Chelm a village of fools. Here are seven magical folktales spun by a master storyteller, that speak of fools, devils, schlemiels, and even heroes—like Zlateh the goat.

Oxana and the Red Dress is a richly layered, multi-generational story of love, passion, and war set against the background of rural Ukraine in the 1930s.

A riveting history and maritime adventure about priceless masterpieces originally destined for Catherine the Great.

A groundbreaking and gripping literary detective novel set in Soviet-era Russia, from the award-winning author of Laurus and The Aviator

A startling and revelatory examination of Nabokov’s life and works—notably Pale Fire and Lolita—bringing new insight into one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic authors.

The acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe.

In the deft hands of Eugene Vodolazkin, The Aviator paints a vivid, panoramic picture of life in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century, richly evoking the sights, sounds and political turmoil of those days.

Petrograd tells the untold tale of the international conspiracy behind the 1916 murder of Grigori Rasputin.