reviews and round-ups

Kira Lisitskaya (Photo: Stolbovsky (CC BY-SA 3.0); Aleksander Gladstein/Sputnik; Public domain)

5 works by Anton Chekhov you should read

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5 new Russian books translated into English in 2024

Yuri Kushevsky (CC BY-SA 4.0)

5 reasons to read ‘Eugene Onegin’, Pushkin’s novel in verse

7 most mystical books by Russian classic writers

Public domain; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Penguin Classics

5 BEST Soviet & Russian dystopian novels

Viktor Temin/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru; Penguin, 2017

Mikhail Sholokhov’s ‘And Quiet Flows the Don’: A short summary

Illustration by O.G. Vereysky, 1972

5 must-read works by Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin

Russia Beyond (Photo: Goskino; Public Domain; Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, 2016)

5 reasons to READ ‘The Master and Margarita’ by Mikhail Bulgakov

Yu. Levyant/Sputnik, KirstentB/Pixabay, Konstantin Yershov/Mosfilm, 1967, Aleksandr Rou/Gorky Film Studio, 1961

5 must-read books by Nikolai Gogol to understand Russia

Russia Beyond (Photo: Brankospejs/Getty images; Deep Vellum Publishing; NYRB)

5 best new English translations of Russian novels in 2023

David Lean/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Carlo Ponti Production, Sostar S.A., 1965

5 classic Russian novels people HATED when they first came out

Russia Beyond (Photo: Evgeny Biyatov/Sputnik; Oneworld Publication)

5 MUST-read books by Russian writer Eugene Vodolazkin

Russia Beyond (Melville House, 2011Archipelago; Reprint edition; NYRB Classics, 2019; domin_domin/Getty Images)

5 LESS OBVIOUS Russian novels to read according to Russia Beyond followers

Russia Beyond (Public Domain; lenta/Getty Images)

10 Russian memoirs and diaries that are enthralling page-turners

Yuliy Karasik, 1970/Mosfilm

10 most IMPORTANT Russian plays

Russia Beyond (Oneworld Publications, 2019; Glagoslav, 2012; Swift Press, 2021)

10 must-read books by Russian female writers

Glagoslav Publications, NYRB Classics, Columbia University Press, Grzegorz Wójcik/Getty Images

5 new Russian books published in English in 2022

Russia Beyond (Legion Media; Vasily Perov/Tretyakov Gallery; Liveright; Livre de Poche; Iwanami Shoten; Adelphi)

10 most popular RUSSIAN BOOKS abroad

Russia Beyond (Photo: Public domain; NYRB Classics, 2012)

Nikolai Gogol’s ‘Dead Souls’: A short summary

Sergei Pyatakov / Sputnik

4 Anton Chekhov plays you need to know (and see live in the theater)

Russia Beyond (Constantin Shapiro/ Public Domain; Getty Images; Om Books International, 2018)

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’: A short summary

Legion Media; Vintage Classics

Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’: A short summary

Legion Media

5 EXCITING Russian books to read on vacation

Russia Beyond (Photo: Press photo; Public domain)

5 MUST-READ books by Mikhail Bulgakov

Russia Beyond (Photo: Sergei Karpukhin/TASS; Plough Publishing House, 2022)

Why you should read Eugene Vodolazkin’s novel, ‘Brisbane’

Russia Beyond (Photo: Public Domain)

10 must-read short stories by Anton Chekhov