Poetry and Intrigue in Uzbekistan: On Hamid Ismailov’s ‘The Devil’s Dance’
The book's saved by Ismailov’s storytelling and Rayfield’s translation even when the narrative’s back is bent with too much history and too many characters.
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Writing Back to Guy and Harriet Pringle
It wasn’t all geography, colonialism, and the erasure of the traces of the "receded Ottoman Empire,” as Manning puts it in the book, that I learned from Fortunes of War. It also taught me a lot about a certain kind of relationship, a certain kind of man.
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Armchair Traveling Across the Russias
During my graduate studies at Oxford, I became friends with a group of people of Waughian tendencies, Russophiles to whom admitting that you spoke no Russian and had not ridden the Trans-Siberian Railway made you a pariah.
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman
The shifting landscapes are the first of many disorientations that Wood sets up for his reader in this haunting narrative.
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