Books

by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Timothy West

Murder Ballads and Other Legends

“Some texts, after I’ve written them, have woken me up in the night so that I break out in a sweat and jump out of bed.” With this confession Bohumil Hrabal concludes Murder Ballads and Other Legends, a genre-bending collection of...

Anastasia Makarova, Stephen M. Dickey and Dagmar Divjak

Each Venture a New Beginning: Studies in Honor of Laura A. Janda

This collection of articles written by colleagues, friends, and students of Laura A. Janda is presented in honor of her contributions to Slavic and Cognitive Linguistics. Topics covered in the volume range from theoretical contributions in Cognitive...

Steven Franks

Syntax and Spell-Out in Slavic

Read our interview with Steve Franks about this book.   This truly fascinating work deals with fundamental theoretical issues regarding the architecture of the grammar, the nature of the Move operation, and the mapping of syntactic...

Anna Starobinets, translated by Katherine E. Young

Look at Him

Journalist, scriptwriter, and novelist Anna Starobinets-often called "Russia's Stephen King"-is best known for her work in horror and her writing for children. In this groundbreaking memoir, Starobinets chronicles the devastating loss of her unborn son...

Pavol Rankov, translated by Madgalena Mullek

It Happened on the First of September (or Some Other Time)

Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. "It's where we've ended up. Not because of our own mistakes, because of politics. We weren't able to live our own lives; we had to live the way we were told to." - Maria (excerpt from book) "It...

Charles J. Halperin

Ivan IV and Muscovy

Ivan the Terrible continues to fascinate and confuse historians. In Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish Charles J. Halperin presented a new and comprehensive interpretation of Ivan’s personality and reign. In his second book on...

Talasbek Asemkulov, translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega

A Life At Noon

“He could not have said exactly what he was hearing. A baby’s sweet babbling? A hesitant declaration of love? He does not know. But the sound moves him as if he might discover in it something eternally important, something unlike he has...

David M. Griffiths, edited by George E. Munro

No Collusion! Catherine the Great and American Independence

Empress Catherine II, building on the military and diplomatic successes of Emperor Peter I and Empress Elizabeth, in less than two decades of rule brought Russia to the forefront among European powers. Her creation of a League of Armed Neutrality,...

Steven Franks

Microvariation in the South Slavic Noun Phrase

This extraordinary work addresses a number of fundamental theoretical issues based on a wealth of fascinating data related to the nominal domain of South Slavic languages. The analyses it proposes and the conclusions it reaches are truly thought...

Pennington et al. (eds.)

And Thus You Are Everywhere Honored: Studies Dedicated to Brian D. Joseph

Translated by Henry R. Cooper, Jr.

Kata Nesiba: The Authentic and Illustrated History of a Belgrade Whore and Her Struggles for Her Constitutional Rights, 1830-1851

The nineteenth century in Serbia began with two uprisings against an Ottoman overlordship that had oppressed not only the Serbs, but all of Southeastern Europe for almost four hundred years. Fired by memories of their medieval empire and determined to...

Translated by Michael Eli Nutkiewicz

A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker's Memoir of Sorrow

Eli Gumener’s 1921 Yiddish memoir, A Ukrainian Chapter, is a rare historical source about relief work spanning the two most devastating years of the pogroms in the Russian Civil War. He concentrates on the collapse of Jewish communities in Podolia,...