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New York Review Books Has an Amazing Forthcoming List

I’ve been a huge fan of NYRB for years. I think I even have copies of the first twelve/thirteen books in those very unfortunately designed covers. Every season I drool when their catalog arrives. I’ve been planning a post for weeks entitled “Albert Cossery is Effing Awesome,” which is due in part to ...

Latest Review: The Queue

Our latest review is of Vladimir Sorokin’s The Queue, which came out from New York Review Books last fall. NYRB has also published Sorokin’s Ice, and have plans to do a few of his other titles as well. That, plus FSG’s publication of A Day in the Life of an Oprichnik might lead to a Sorokin moment . . . One ...

The Queue

— One thousand two hundred and thirty five. — Alekseev. — One thousand two hundred and thirty six. — Troshina. — One thousand two hundred and thirty seven. — Zaborovsky. — One thousand two hundred and thirty eight. — Crossed off. Once thousand two hundred and thirty ...

An Accident?

According to the Moscow News, the Russian PEN Center recently sent a letter to the Moscow’s prosecutor’s office, “asking for a thorough investigation of a road accident involving well-known Russian author Vladimir Sorokin earlier this month.” This does sound really suspicious: According to press ...