A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town andproceeds to v...

A young Russian man, engaged to be married, encounters his former love in a German spa town and i...

The first comprehensive and objective history of the literature of Georgia, revealed to be unique...

The great Russian explorer Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839-1888) made an indelible contribution to the ...

The description 'definitive' is too easily used, but Donald Rayfield's biography of Chekhov merit...

Now in its first complete English translation, this masterpiece chronicles life in a Soviet gulag...

The astonishing follow-up to 2018's Kolyma Stories.In 1936, Varlam Shalamov, a journalist and wri...

Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, Georgia is a country of rainforests...

Of all Russian writers, Chekhov is one of the best liked and most easily appreciated. Yet he is a...

Finalist, Prix Jan Michalski de Littérature 2023

A new collection of the renowned Russian writer's best short work, including a masterful translat...

An NYRB Classics OriginalThe first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable master...

Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jai...

With implications for the war in Ukraine, a surprising history of the Crimean Tatars from the fif...