Just what we need at the end of January - the new edition of Asymptote is out! You’ll find my interview with the inspirational Hamid Ismailov there, alongside all sorts of other wonderful things www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an...

Kind of tickled that my interviews with @antonhur.com and @jencalleja.bsky.social were the second, and third most read on Asymptote's site in 2025! Here's to a 2026 of more fun interviews - thank you to everyone who took the time to chat with me! www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/12...

The new edition of Asymptote is out today - and I got to interview the wonderful @jencalleja.bsky.social for it 😊 Have a read here! www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an...

Come and join me for a chat with author Shahzoda Samarqandi about her wonderful novel Mothersland! Her translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega will be there too for a discussion of language, politics, and Central Asian literature. 23rd Sept, Byre Theatre, St Andrews byretheatre.com/shows/transl...

And a lovely interview with the wonderful @bdralyuk.bsky.social www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an...

New edition of Asymptote out today! www.asymptotejournal.com

We're bringing back Apofenie Magazine. Among other things, expect book reviews from me there that aren't related to Ukraine and the surrounding region. For our triumphant return, I reviewed Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad's wartime memoir "The Eyes of Gaza." www.apofenie.com/the-latest-c...

I have been absent for a while - coming back to post this very fun interview with the wonderful @antonhur.com! www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an...

Sarah Gear: Recording a complex tapestry of life

'In Russia, fact and record shift like quicksand.' Bryan Karetnyk: How Stalin shaped the Soviet collective memory

An interview with with wonderful Christina Kramer about translating Macedonian literature on the Asymptote blog today! Thank you Christina! www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/03...

With eastern Ukraine again at the centre of world events, it's never been more important to listen to those who come from there. This is what Victoria Donovan does in her new book. Join our discussion @uclssees.bsky.social next Friday! @dauntbookspub.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

Very excited to announce this new podcast!

Huge thank you to @olgaz.bsky.social for this Q&A about Avdot'ia Panaeva and to Margarita Vaysman and Fiona Bell for the marvelous discussion. "Hers is a rare female voice in the predominantly male chorus of other big nineteenth-century Russian writers." puncturedlines.com/2025/02/28/n...

This list of 2025 Books by Post-Soviet Authors has been updated with two new titles (Julie Masis and Olga Stein). Thank you @sashavasilyuk.bsky.social for putting this list together and staying on top of it! So exciting to see all of these books in one place. puncturedlines.com/2025/02/11/2...

Please join us for a conversation with Prof Victoria Donovan on her latest book 'Life in Spite of Everything. Tales from the Ukrainian East', which explores the lived experiences of communities in Ukraine’s #Donbas region. 🗓️ 14 March at 5.30pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ buff.ly/41bybJE

See the full shortlists here: authr.uk/TP24 Shop the shortlists - uk.bookshop.org/lists/transl... #TranslationPrizes

Very excited that I'll be presenting on Russian literature, translation and soft power at the EST 2025 Congress in Leeds this summer! #EST2025

I was also able to chat to Shelley Fairweather-Vega about her work as a translator - out today on the Asymptote blog www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/11...

Time for my first post here :) I was lucky enough to review Mothersland by Shahzoda Samarqandi, translated by the wonderful Shelley Fairweather-Vega. www.full-stop.net/2024/10/14/r...