Lizok's Bookshelf

Happy New Year! С Новым Годом! I hope you’re enjoying the holidays, no matter where you might be, and I wish you lots and lots of good r...

Ah, biographies! I read so few biographies – until the two under discussion today, I think my last was Charles J. Shields’s And So It Goes:...

I was excited to see voting results yesterday morning for this year’s Big Book Award. The top winner was the troika of Oleg Lekmanov, Mikhai...

It’s not quite December but I’ve decided to post this year’s list of new Russian-to-English translations. If I’ve counted correctly (someth...

Where to start? The basics, I suppose: Anna Kozlova’s Рюрик ( Rurik ) and Liubov Barinova’s Ева ( Eve ) are both books about young women ...