Literature

Six Trains of No Return collects twelve short stories that examine immigrant sagas and dislocations that are both uniquely personal and universal. Emotionally resonant yet edged with quiet humor, they explore themes of displacement, belonging, and memory

The revelatory, much-anticipated memoir from the Wall Street Journal reporter who was wrongly imprisoned in Putin’s Russia for more than a year—a glimpse inside the perils and contradictions of a country in the midst of autocracy.

A rediscovered classic memoir – the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman’s year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic.

A deluxe gift edition celebrating the most powerful short works of Fyodor Dostoevsky—elegantly bound, thoughtfully curated, and designed to be cherished.

The Best of Russian Literature boxed set presents a curated collection of masterpieces from iconic Russian authors Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

In the years before the 1917 Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St. Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians, a place to meet, drink, read, brawl, celebrate and perform.

In this lyrical and artfully woven memoir, a short road trip to California’s Central Coast becomes an epic journey through family history, loss, and connection.

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.

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.

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.