Literature in Translation

Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death, by Julia Kristeva (chapter 1 excerpt)

Zhuangzi, translated by Richard John Lynn (chapter 3)

The Fragrant Companions, by Li Yu (Scene 7 "Conjugal Harmony")

The Backstreets, by Perhat Tursun (excerpt)

Longing and Other Stories, by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki ("Sorrows of a Heretic")

Samak the Ayyar, translated by Freydoon Rassouli and adapted by Jordan Mechner (chapter one)

Faraway, by Lo Yi-Chin. Translated by Jeremy Tiang (On the Way)

The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, by Yury Tynyanov (prologue)

The Membranes, by Chi Ta-wei, translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich ("Promiscuous Literacy")

The Voice Over, by Maria Stepanova ("Young Maids Sing, " translated by Eugene Ostashevsky)

The Nose, by Nikolai Gogol ("The Nose")

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, by Alexander Radishchev (chapters 1 and 2)

Sachiko, by Endō Shūsaku ( chapter 2: Sachiko)

Other Moons, translated and edited by Quan Manh Ha (“Out of the Laughing Woods,” by Vo Thi Hao)

Friend, by Paek Nam-nyong. Translated by Immanuel Kim (chapter 1)

Friend, by Paek Nam-nyong (chapter 2)

A Couple of Soles, by Li Yu (scene 19)

Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage, by Yuz Aleshkovsky (chapter 1 & 2)

Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage, by Yuz Aleshkovsky (introduction)

The Sarashina Diary, by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume (pages 59-65)

The Sarashina Diary, by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume (pages 90-101)

The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon, edited by Ivan Morris (chapter 8)

Klotsvog, by Margarita Khemlin (opening pages)

Fu Ping, by Wang Anyi (chapter 5)

The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays, ed. Steven D. Carter (chapter 1)

A Double Life, by Karolina Pavlova (chapter 1)

A DOUBLE LIFE, by Karolina Pavlova (introduction)

Found Life, by Linor Goralik (She Said, He Said)

Necropolis, by Vladislav Khodasevich (introduction)

The Man Who Couldn't Die, by Olga Slavnikova (introduction)

Jacques Schiffrin, by Amos Reichman (introduction)

A German Officer in Occupied Paris, by Ernst Jünger (foreword)

Redemption, by Friedrich Gorenstein (chapter 3)

Redemption, by Friedrich Gorenstein (introduction)

The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology ("Histories of Time" by Dung Kai-cheung)

The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology ("The Poetry Cloud" by Liu Cixin)

The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology ("The Rain Forest" by Chi Hui)

The Great Flowing River by Chi Pang-yuan (introduction)

Sentimental Tales by Mikhail Zoshchenko (from "Apollo and Tamara")

Between Dog and Wolf by Sasha Sokolov (from "Notes of a Binging Hunter")

Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry by Konstantin Batyushkov (introduction)

Rapture by Iliazd (introduction)

Sisters of the Cross by Alexei Remizov (introduction)

Between Dog and Wolf by Sasha Sokolov (introduction)

Strolls with Pushkin by Andrei Sinyavsky (introduction)

Fourteen Little Read Huts and Other Plays by Andrei Platonov (introduction)

In Black and White: A Novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (translator's afterword)

Rapture, by Iliazd (chapter 3)