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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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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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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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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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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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.
View episodeCameron revists Baqytgul Sarmekova’s To Hell With Poets with the help of the collection’s translator, Mirgul Kali.
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View episodeCameron is joined by Dominique Hoffman to discuss Olena Stiazhkina's Cecil the Lion Had to Die. They'll get into her work translating the novel, the material culture of the post-Soviet world, and Ukrainian identify formation.
View episodeCameron sits down with Fiona Bell to talk about her translation of Avdotya Panaeva's The Talnikov Family, covering its deployment of defamiliarization, the Russian racial imaginary, and purported universality.
View episodeMajor themes: Raskolnikov the rap god, The future of art, Tricking PBS
View episodeMajor themes: We can never escape Benedict Anderson, Bai-narrative, Quasi-history
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