From the July 2019 Issue The End of Innocence Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories By Svetlana Alexievich (Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)
From the July 2017 Issue Mothers, Daughters, Soldiers Avenging Angels: Soviet Women Snipers on the Eastern Front (1941 - 1945) By Lyuba Vinogradova The Unwomanly Face of War By Svetlana Alexievich
From the July 2016 Issue ‘Things only ever got worse’ Second-Hand Time: The Last of Soviets By Svetlana Alexievich (Translated by Bela Shayevich) LR
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