Friends in NYC: this Monday, 9/18, join Russian writer-in-exile Anna Starobinets and me at Hunter College for our ONLY public reading in NYC. We'll discuss 'Look at Him,' Anna's controversial memoir about the loss of her unborn son. Free, RSVP required. bit.ly/3r5sD5E

Правда, оправдание и самооправдание. Что с нами делает война - в моей лекции для Свободного университета.

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Еще со временем генерала Лебедя известно, что нельзя на Руси одновременно иметь политические амбиции и летать малой авиацией

С российской стороны в этой войне героев нет.

On Thursday, September 21, UT's Clements Center will host human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek for a public talk on “Russian Opposition to Totalitarianism Rule,” at 12:15 pm in the Protho Theater, Harry Ransom Center. clementscenter.org/event/russian-…

The haunting story of Lodz ghetto during the WWII is in the focus of the theatre play #TheWhiteFactory that is launching this September in London. I wrote the script and Maxim Didenko is directing. A link to the tickets is first in the thread

Great to see #witmonth celebrated in the ⁦The Seattle Times⁩ seattletimes.com/entertainment/…

Next Thursday, 8/17: the second PEN America Women in Translation reading that I helped curate! Join host Nancy Naomi Carlson and 5 marvelous writer-translator pairs working from Spanish, Tutunakú, Mandarin Chinese, German, and Japanese! Please share! pen.org/event/virtual-…

Delighted to have another new translation of Ukraine's Iya Kiva Iya Kiva up online Small Orange Poetry Journal | Orange Editions, along with more of Kiva's work translated by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk. Enjoy! smallorangejournal.com/new-page-4

Love this book. Beautiful translation.

A dark farce of babies swapped at birth from Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (translated by Marion Schwartz) - Kidnapped:
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#WITMonth Deep Vellum

Writer Lyudmila Petrushevskaya announced that she cannot and will not write for and about her people - 'marauding soldiers, rapists and thieves.'
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OVD-Info ОВД-Инфо Weekly Bulletin No. 314: New repressive laws - #RightsinRussia OVD-Info English rightsinrussia.org/ovd-info-314/

Режим, который регулярно шантажирует мир применением ядерного оружия, совершенно явно и стопроцентно неадекватен, и должен быть изолирован и нейтрализован во имя будущего Земли. Каждый, хотя бы раз выступавший с угрозами применения ядерного оружия, должен понести ответственность.

Magnificent portrait of a woman, 1620, by Artemisia Gentileschi. She was born on this day in 1593.

For New York Times Books special issue on Translation, I wrote about Constance Garnett's language tutor, a revolutionary who assassinated the head of the secret police, and when translating Russian literature was considered a subversive activity.
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14. 'Sulfur' by Dmitry Glukhovsky Дмитрий Глуховский (Russia) translated by Marian Schwartz Marian Schwartz
15. 'Proposition 23' by Efe Okogu (Nigeria)
16. 'Root Rot' by Fargo Tbakhi fargo nissim tbakhi (not on here rn) (US)

Congrats to three of our titles awarded by the Foreword Reviews Indies this year! A BOY IN THE CITY (@syarberry1, GOLD Winner for Poetry), COUNTRY OF ORIGIN (@DaliaAzim, Honorable Mention for Historical Fiction), and GREY BEES (Andrey Kurkov, tr Boris Dralyuk, Editor's Choice.

But that's just by the by.
#Petrushevskaya24 #Kidnapped

'He’d had his eye on this apartment for a long time anyway. According to his information, the apartment’s official tenant, an elderly grandmother, was an alcoholic, and a sick one at that, on her way out, and the kid was little.' A thread, apartment obsession. #Petrushevskaya24