Short Stories

Tommaso Landolfi and ‘Gogol’s Wife’

The issue of Nikolai Gogol's romantic life has long vexed biographers and critics. With significant gaps in his biography, especially during his travels and years spent abroad, and with Gogol elusive on the subject in his letters to friends, interest has often centred upon his fiction, which has been navigated and interpreted for all manner of clues. All we know is...

English Translations of ‘Funes the Memorious’ by Jorge Luis Borges

The impetus for Jorge Luis Borges attaining widespread international recognition came when, in May 1961, at 61 years of age, he was awarded the first Prix International alongside Samuel Beckett. The Prix International was an international award for literary merit, established by six publishing houses - Seix Barral of Barcelona, Gallimard of Paris, Einaudi of Turin, Grove Press of New...

A Brief History of Ukraine

With the situation in Crimea apparently determined, at least for the time being, attention is turning to other sites in Ukraine and beyond. The withdrawal of Ukrainian forces at the beginning of this week - after Russian troops seized the Belbek airbase and Feodosia naval base - marked the interim Ukrainian government's tacit acceptance that Crimea has been lost. Russian...

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