Slovo, Vol. 9, No.1, 1996 Mikhalkov’s tale of life in the Russian countryside in the mid-1930s is an apparently idyllic one. A man and a […]
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“The Distinguished Assassin”, Second Extract
29th December ‘52 At Kirovskaya, Natasha stands on the escalator as it descends into the bowels of Moscow. She recalls how just over a week […]
“Don Don”, Chapter 2
I opened my eyes at three o’clock in the morning as the temple bell tower sounded: I always woke at the same time. I no […]
“Don Don”, Chapter 1
There was me at my table in Bucci’s, new Italian on Lexington up near the Chrysler Building, been there about a year and I liked […]
“Love and Mayhem”, from Chapter 3
The bus he gets on is packed. He scans the bottom deck for an empty seat, then goes upstairs. As he reaches the top, he […]
“Gorilla Guerrilla”, from Chapter 24
The rain tumbles down; it does not relent. The forest is hazy, saturated, obscured by the downpour, and during those brief periods when the rain […]
“Gorilla Guerrilla”, from Chapter 1
The sound of a voice wakes me. I am still tired, it is black outside, it must be the middle of the night. I am […]
“Love and Mayhem”, Chapter 34
The last few days, Catherine has felt like she is flying: she is happy all the time. And she feels like this now as she […]
“The Distinguished Assassin”, First Extract
1st April ‘49 First, they frisk him down, then they start to go through his apartment, this shoddy home of Aleksei Nikolayevich Klebnikov, with its […]
“Gorilla Guerrilla”, a review by M. Hewitt
“I read, and liked, Nick Taussig’s first novel, Love and Mayhem, but somehow missed Don Don, so I’m glad I came across his third book, […]