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Thursday, January 21, 2021

An Epitaph for Trump's Presidency

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Trump began his presidency of the United States as a self-pitying pariah narcissist, filled with resentments. He ended it as a pariah narcis...
Monday, January 27, 2020

An Afternoon with Joseph Brodsky in San Francisco, December (?) 1988

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Joseph Brodsky. California Street, San Francisco, December 1988 I took this photo in San Francisco on a quiet December (?) afternoo...
Monday, January 20, 2020

СНЕГ 1969 ГОДА (Из Книги «Моя Азбука»)

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Друзья жаловались: в Москве в декабре не выпал снег. Озадачившись, я принялся ворошить память в поисках московского зимнего с...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Message in a Bottle: Osip Mandelstam and His Wire

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Osip Mandelstam. 1912 From time to time, a poem that has been tucked away deep in my unconscious memory, loosens from ...
Sunday, September 8, 2019

Beanpole (Дылда): Conversation with Kantemir Balagov

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Vera Mirochnichenko as Beanpole.  Beanpole (Дылда) 2019. New: Beanpole has been selected by the Russian Oscar Committee ...
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Grisha Freidin
writer, scholar, professor (emeritus, Stanford U); A Coat of Many Colors: Osip Mandelstam, The Enigma of Isaac Babel, Isaac Babel: Selected Writing; Russia on the Barricades, Russian Culture in Transition, The Federalist Papers (in Russian); Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament
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