For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Catherine Brown

From the July 2019 Issue

Dressing Gown Nation?

Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age

By Sara Wheeler

From the February 2019 Issue

She Had Sweets Named After Her

Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter

By Edythe Haber

From the October 2018 Issue

Tales from the Gulag

Kolyma Stories: Volume One

By Varlam Shalamov (Translated by Donald Rayfield)

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 October 2015 Issue

Reader, I Married Him

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)

From the September 2014 Issue

Sun & Lovers

D H Lawrence: The Poems

By Christopher Pollnitz (ed)

Lady Chatterley’s Villa: D H Lawrence on the Italian Riviera

By Richard Owen