In a new book, Yale’s Jinyi Chu shows how Russian modernists turned to Chinese art forms to expand their understanding of the universal.

Robin Feuer Miller, Chair of the Department of German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literature Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Nineteenth-century Russian literature and comparative literature. The novel.

Lovers of 19th-century Russian literature have likely never heard the name Avdotya Panaeva, even though she traveled in the same literary circles as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Born in 1819 and raised in ...

I understand why people hate all things Russian right now. But our literature did not put Putin in power or cause this war.

The radical politics of Russian literature’s most famous English translator, Constance Garnett. By Jennifer Wilson Jennifer Wilson, a contributing essayist at the Book Review, has a Ph.D. in ...

Launched to promote Russian literature on the global stage during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the new Dar (“Gift”) literary prize is already mired in controversy — and not ...

Love and Russian Literature reminds us of how much literature permeates our consciousness and can even blind us to reality, especially when passions run high.

Tom Roberts researches Russian literature, cinema and intellectual history, specializing in the theory and practice of 19th-century literary realism. He is currently completing his first book, which ...

Love Them or Hate Them, This Couple Reign in Russian Literature For Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, translating together extended naturally from their relationship as husband and wife.