Stalingrad p.1 by Vasily Grossman
Major themes: Getting off-topic, Ways of looking at truth, Polyphony
Envy by Olesha (w/ Dr. José Vergara)
Major themes: Cheap but nutritious sausage, Ophelia the destroyer, Soviet ambivalence
The Orchard (w/ Author Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry)
Major themes: The Time Between Dog and Wolf, Re-writing the past, Toasting to art
Eugene Onegin p.3 by Pushkin (w/ Dr. Katherine Bowers)
Major themes: Onegin is a simp, All Gothic All the Way Down, Buy Dr. Bowers' Book
Eugene Onegin p.2 by Pushkin
Major themes: Pushkin teaches us PUA, Dueling etiquette, “Russian to the core”
Eugene Onegin p.1 by Pushkin
Major themes: Terpsichorean foot, Russian Nobility, It’s Napoleon all the way down