From the March 2020 Issue Sorrows of Hungary Katalin Street By Magda Szabó (Translated from Hungarian by Len Rix) Abigail By Magda Szabó (Translated from Hungarian by Len Rix) LR
From the December 2019 Issue Pride, Prejudice & Pushkin Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor By Vladimir Nabokov (Edited by Brian Boyd & Anastasia Tolstoy)
From the October 2019 Issue Madness & Misanthropy Bellevue By Ivana Dobrakovová (Translated by Julia & Peter Sherwood) Big Love By Balla (Translated by Julia & Peter Sherwood)
From the September 2019 Issue Artists & Lovers The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture By Orlando Figes
From the August 1999 Issue Not Undiscovered The Undiscovered Chekhov: Thirty-Eight New Stories By Translated and Edited by Peter Constantine
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From the February 2019 Issue Griboyedov’s Last Journey Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar By Yuri Tynianov (Translated by Susan Causey) LR
From the December 2018 Issue Yours Radically Greetings From the Barricades: Revolutionary Postcards in Imperial Russia By Tobie Mathew
From the September 2018 Issue Losing Lienka Fleeting Snow By Pavel Vilikovsky (Translated by Julia & Peter Sherwood) LR
From the November 2017 Issue A Dictator’s Progress Stalin, Vol II: Waiting for Hitler, 1928–1941 By Stephen Kotkin LR
From the September 2017 Issue Emptying the Bread Basket Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine By Anne Applebaum
From the August 2017 Issue Party Walls The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution By Yuri Slezkine LR
From the April 2017 Issue Witness to a Century Miłosz: A Biography By Andrzej Franaszek (Edited & translated by Aleksandra & Michael Parker)
From the March 2017 Issue The Boy Scout & the Butcher The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution By Robert Service Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait By Victor Sebestyen LR
From the February 2017 Issue One Shift in the Life of… The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard By Ivan Chistyakov (Translated by Arch Tait) LR
From the October 2016 Issue Trial & Terror Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905–1953 By Simon Ings LR
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