An Elegiac Exile of Identity & Language
The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova
Spinning on Its Own Axis
The Beginnings by Antonio Moresco
Death, the Occult, and the Limits of Ambition
The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgaard
A Dark, Comic Portrait of Weimar Berlin
Berlin Shuffle by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Absurd Realities & Unsettling Truths
(Th)ings and (Th)oughts by Alla Gorbunova
The Ice That Consumes Us
Ice by Anna Kavan
A Literary Dissection of Grief
Motherdying by Michael Lentz
Caught in a Moral Maelstrom
The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
Tracing the Path of Self-Identity
Needle's Eye by Wiesław Myśliwski
Satirical Surrealism in Resurrected Medieval Russia
The Sugar Kremlin by Vladimir Sorokin
A Nightmarish Trip Through Germany’s past
Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz
The Contrast of War & Childhood Reverie
In Late Summer by Magdalena Blažević
A Surreal Lampoon of Humanity’s Grand Delusions
Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin
A Star’s Tragic, Blinding Light
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Parodies of Russian Oddities & Political Machinations
Red Pyramid by Vladimir Sorokin
Capturing the Absurdity of Soviet Reality
Dispatches from the District Committee by Vladimir Sorokin
The Frenetic Metamorphosis of a City
Conquered City by Victor Serge
Vignettes of an Emotional Exodus
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi
Destruction as Salvation: László Krasznahorkai
Inside László Krasznahorkai’s Apocalypse Quartet
Building on Despair & Empty Promises
The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov