Lizok's Bookshelf

It’s been a long time since I’ve methodically gone through an entire long or short list for an award, adding links and descriptions… so here...

My favorite Russian L writer has been with me since I began reading in Russian in the ‘80s: Mikhail Lermontov . My Russian literature class ...

There are weeks (like, say, last week) when it feels like I can’t check my blog reader or Lenta.ru without finding more news about Russian l...

Saturday, September 3 was the 70 th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Dovlatov , author of The Compromise ( previous post ), one of my ve...

It’s common knowledge around here that I don’t read a lot of book-length nonfiction… but I do sometimes read—and, yes, even enjoy!—the occas...