Sayat Nova
A short review of Sayat Nova (1969) / The Color of Pomegranates, directed by Sergei Parajanov. Plus, five other films I really liked this year.
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For Your Consideration: Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky & Delicious Hunger by Hai Fan
This week, Cameron dives into Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic and Hai Fan’s Delicious Hunger, trying to probe the question plaguing recent episodes: “What is the value of art during wartime?”
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For Your Consideration: War Diary by Yevgenia Belorusets & The Time of Doves by Mercè Rodoreda
Cameron continues speaking about Yevgenia Belorusets’ work with War Diary and also explores the experience of women living through war in Merce Rodoreda’s The Time of Doves.
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For Your Consideration: Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
This week, Cameron talks about unreliable narrators in Yevgenia Belorusets’ Lucky Breaks and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, posing an unusual argument: what if lying to your reader was a good thing?
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For your consideration: Alindarka's Children by Alhierd Bacharevič and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
This week, in For Your Consideration, Cameron dives into Belarusian writer Alhierd Bacharevič’s Alindarka’s Children and Laguna-Pueblo-American writer Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony. Both novels explore people native to a land that is now, in different ways, hostile to them.
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For Your Consideration: Europe Central by William T. Vollmann | Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
This week, Cameron dives into William T. Vollmann's prose in Europe Central and into complicated memories in Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood.
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For your consideration: Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me by Teffi | In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
Cameron dives solo into two books: Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me by Teffi and In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien.
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The Story of Sonechka by Marina Tsvetaeva (w/ Inessa Fishbeyn and C. D. C. Reeve)
This week, Cameron sits down with the translators of Marina Tsvetaeva's The Story of Sonechka to discuss her recollections of an old relationships.
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The Moscoviad by Yuri Andrukhovych (w/ Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky)
Cameron sits down with Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky to talk about Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych’s The Moscoviad, a picaresque-cum-magical realist novel following the poet Otto von F. through a bizarre one-day journey in Moscow.
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I Live I See by Vsevolod Nekrasov (w/ trans. Bela Shayevich and Dr. Ainsley Morse)
Cameron dives into the poetry of Vsevolod Nekrasov, joined by Bela Shayevich and Ainsley Morse who collected and translated works spanning much of his life in I Live I See: Selected Poems.
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Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov (w/ the author himself)
This week, Cameron ascends into the towering heights of imperial politics in Yaroslav Barsukov’s Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory, joined by the author himself.
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Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy (w/ Dr. Tatyana Gershkovich)
This week, Cameron dives back into the work of Leo Tolstoy to talk about one of his later works, Hadji Murat, joined by podcast returnee Dr. Tatyana Gershkovich.
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