From the August 2019 Issue Novelist in Arms Stalingrad By Vasily Grossman (Edited by Robert Chandler & Yuri Bit-Yunan) (Translated by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler) LR
From the May 2016 Issue From Odessa to Paris Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea By Teffi (Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson & Irina Steinberg) Rasputin and Other Ironies By Teffi (Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Rose France & Anne Marie Jackson)
From the December 2014 Issue The Russian Saki Subtly Worded By Teffi (Translated by Anne Marie Jackson, Robert & Elizabeth Chandler, Clare Kitson, Irina Steinberg & Natalia Wase) LR
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