Issue 5 · Moscow
- Editor’s Note
Maternal Capital
“As inseparable from the past as a mother’s embrace.”
- Essay
A Book of Moscow
by Olga Derkach & Vladislav Bykov
“These restorations are worse than the previous destruction.”
- Essay
Communal Fictions
by Lev Rubinstein
“Communal consciousness gave rise to the communal myth.”
- Memoir
Strangers in Moscow
by Maria Galina
“Moscow is one of the few cities that will accept you as you are.”
- Essay
Anyone Home?
by Zinovy Zinik
“Perhaps I emigrated to find out how it felt to be a foreigner.”
- Poetry
by Mikhail Aizenberg
- Memoir
How I Became Multicultural
by Yuri Slezkine
“I reverted to being Soviet in 1993.”
- Poetry
by Sergei Gandlevsky
- Fiction
…And Died on the Same Day
by Ludmila Ulitskaya
“The thing she most loved in life was death.”
- Fiction
Everything Flows
by Vassily Grossman
“It was good to be escaping the vastness of Moscow.”
- Portfolio
Title Nation
by Jason Eskenazi & Valeri Nistratov
- Fiction
by Linor Goralik
- Poetry
by Olga Zondberg
- Fiction
Verhovsky and Son
by Leonid Kostyukov
“He practiced losing his father.”
- Poetry
by Dmitry Kuzmin
- Interview
A Conversation with Jonathan Brent
“I prefer the slow violence of capitalism to a shot in the back of the
head.”
