Read Russia Journal

More Russian Literature is Coming!

On June 27 across Red Square from the Kremlin, Read Russia and Russia's Institute for Literary Translation convened the Editorial Advisory Board of the Russian Library, a new initiative designed to bring 100 to 125 works of Russian literature in top-notch English translations to English-speaking readers around the world.

The editorial meeting brought together distinguished Russian and American publishers, literary scholars, curators, and bibliographers - Vsevolod Bagno, Dmitry Bak, Caryl Emerson, Edward Kasinec, Irina Prokhorova, Alexander Livergant, Stephanie Sandler, Vladimir Tolstoy, and others - to discuss Russian works of literature meriting inclusion in the Russian Library over the next ten years. The Russian Library will be published in hardcover, paperback, and electronic formats and include multiple online dimensions and multimedia study environments for teaching and learning. Andrew Roth of the New York Times wrote: "Academics at the conference said that the collaboration presented a chance, at least informally, to build the relationship between the two countries at a time of heightened tensions."

Read the New York Times article, "Columbia University Press to Publish New Translations of Russian Literature"