Podcast: Then & Now #3 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Lev Gudkov

17 March 2023 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the third episode of our new Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas.   After the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24,…

Continue ReadingPodcast: Then & Now #3 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Lev Gudkov

Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘Kilometer 101’ by Maxim Osipov

9 March 2023 By Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews Kilometer 101 by Maxim Osipov, edited by Boris Dralyuk, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk, Nicolas Pasternak Slater, and Alex Fleming. Paperback 296pp ISBN-9781681376868 (New York Review…

Continue ReadingTeresa Cherfas reviews ‘Kilometer 101’ by Maxim Osipov
Read more about the article Podcast: Then & Now #2 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Svetlana Gannushkina
Svetlana Gannushkina Right Livelihood Award 2016 Stockholm 11 / 2016 Photo: Wolfgang Schmidt

Podcast: Then & Now #2 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Svetlana Gannushkina

20 February 2023 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the second episode of our new Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas.   After the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24,…

Continue ReadingPodcast: Then & Now #2 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Svetlana Gannushkina
Read more about the article Podcast: Then & Now – with Marina Litvinenko
Marina Litvinenko, widow of Alexander Litvinenko, ahead of an interview for Bloomberg Quicktake's "Emma Barnett Meets," in London, U.K., on Thursday, March 10, 2022. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg

Podcast: Then & Now – with Marina Litvinenko

15 January 2023 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to our new Russian-language podcast, Then & Now, with me, Teresa Cherfas.   After the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 everything,…

Continue ReadingPodcast: Then & Now – with Marina Litvinenko

Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘Living Pictures’ by Polina Barskova

8 December 2022 By Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews Living Pictures by Polina Barskova, translated from the Russian by Catherine Ciepiela and with an introduction by Eugene Ostashevsky. Paperback 224pp ISBN-9781782277606 (Pushkin Press,…

Continue ReadingTeresa Cherfas reviews ‘Living Pictures’ by Polina Barskova

Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘Free: Coming of Age at the End of History’ by Lea Ypi

30 August 2022 By Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi. Paperback 336pp ISBN-9780141995106 (Allen Lane, London, 2022) Lea Ypi is a professor…

Continue ReadingTeresa Cherfas reviews ‘Free: Coming of Age at the End of History’ by Lea Ypi

Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘Rich Russians: from Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie’ by Elisabeth Schimpfössl

28 July 2022 By Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews Rich Russians: from Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie by Elisabeth Schimpfössl. Hardback 248pp ISBN-9780190677763 (Oxford University Press, New York, 2018) In 2008, the year Russia invaded Georgia,…

Continue ReadingTeresa Cherfas reviews ‘Rich Russians: from Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie’ by Elisabeth Schimpfössl

Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and its Punishment’ by Kevin Birmingham

2 June 2022 By Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoyevsky, a Crime and its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham. Hardback 432pp ISBN-9780241235942 (Allen Lane, London, 2021) 2021 was book-ended…

Continue ReadingTeresa Cherfas reviews ‘The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and its Punishment’ by Kevin Birmingham