literature
Bring Back Censorship
A historian and translator of Russian and Swedish literature, and a literary critic for Le Monde, Elena Balzamo closely follows the Russian literary scene. She notes that even though there is no official censorship, the authorities blithely ban hundreds of books—including major classics—demanding that they be removed from libraries...
Rereading Solzhenitsyn, Thirty Years Later
The weaknesses in Solzhenitsyn’s view of Russian history take on renewed significance in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine.