Nick Taussig“A dazzling study of mental anguish and moral dilemma” Author Nick Taussig picks his essential crime fiction reads… The Big Issue, 7 August 2013 […]
Tag: Russian literature
Independent – Five-minute memoir: Nick Taussig recalls a particularly trying trip across Russia
‘Mother Russia’ had long intrigued the author, but a journey across the country almost changed his mind… The Independent, 3 August 2013 A lifelong student […]
Marcel Berlins reviews “The Distinguished Assassin” in The Times
“The Distinguished Assassin is Professor Aleksei Klebnikov, banished to a Gulag labour camp in 1949 on trumped-up charges. Set free in 1952, he becomes a hitman […]
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevskii
Man is a wolf to man, according to The Grand Inquisitor in Dostoevskii’s The Brothers Karamazov. He has no inclination to be good, but is […]
Why I wrote “The Distinguished Assassin”
epitoneAs a postgraduate student of Russian literature at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies in 1995, I will never forget […]
Putin’s Dark Imperium
I’ve had a passion for Russian literature since I was a teenager. Its grand themes of murder and redemption were always going to hold more […]