I spoke with @rolandebrown.bsky.social about why Putin insists Ukraine belongs to Russia’s so-called “spiritual space,” and why his pliant Patriarch,Kirill, blames the war on European gay pride parades preaching that Russians killed fighting for “Holy Rus” are going to heaven. youtu.be/DYNaLOM-Wfs

For the latest episode of The Orwellians, I spoke to Marc Bennetts about his new book, The Descent: Witnessing Russia's Spiral Into Madness Under Putin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zThp...

In a new interview, author Filip Kovacevic of KGB Literati reveals how Soviet spies turned storytellers to spread propaganda & recruit the next generation of agents. Watch the podcast, here: bit.ly/475YZic #LiteraryStudies #RussianLiterature @chekistmonitor.bsky.social @rolandebrown.bsky.social

My interview with Lena Wolf, the London-based author of the graphic novel, May the Universe Be Your Home: Growing Up German in Kazakhstan. The book tells the story of a family of Soviet Germans cruelly exiled from Ukraine to Kazakhstan by Stalin in 1941. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XcH...

My interview with Lena Wolf, the London-based author of the graphic novel, May the Universe Be Your Home: Growing Up German in Kazakhstan. The book tells the story of a family of Soviet Germans cruelly exiled from Ukraine to Kazakhstan by Stalin in 1941. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XcH...

"They know Putin’s invocation of ancient Russian greatness was always baloney, a cover for survival instincts that kicked in at the first sight of real democracy in Ukraine." observer.co.uk/culture/book...

“The spooky corners of genre fiction have long proved meeting places of Anglo-American culture,” writes @rolandebrown.bsky.social. “The gothic connection is hardly surprising. Britain and America are bound not only by kinship, but in collective death and bloodshed.” newlinesmag.com/argument/bat...

The Batman mythos offers a window into the bloody, gothic substrate of the Anglo-American relationship and the American appetite for British advice and encouragement. @rolandebrown.bsky.social plumbs the depths in this highly original @newlinesmag.bsky.social essay. newlinesmag.com/argument/bat...