All episodes
A new voice on the Slavic Literature Pod
No One Talks About the War (with author Nina Kossman)
Ukrainian Literary Modernism (with Drs. Halyna Babak and Yuliya Ilchuk)
Mosquito by Akhmet Baitursynov (with translator Jake Zawlacki)
Sofia Petrova by Lydia Chukovskaya
For Your Consideration: John Williams' Butcher's Crossing (and why I don't think we should compare it to Blood Meridian)
The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman + What Vasily Grossman and Life & Fate mean today
PREP WORK: The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman
A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov (w/ Dr. José Vergara)
Chevengur by Andrei Platonov, Chapters 25-43
Zvenihora (1928) directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Anton Chekhov, Earliest Stories (w/ editors Rosamund Bartlett and Elena Michajlowska)
My five favorite films of the year + Sayat Nova, dir. by Sergei Parajanov
Earth (1930) directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Not Russian by Mikhail Shevelev (w/ Ally Pitts, host of A Russian & Soviet Movie Podcast)
Chevengur, chapters 1-25, by Andrei Platonov
The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky and Delicious Hunger by Hai Fan
An update, a reason to podcast, a look through October
For Your Consideration: War Diary by Yevgenia Belorusets & The Time of Doves by Merce Rodoreda
A message from Matt
Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets & The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Alindarka's Children by Alhierd Bacharevič & Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann & Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me by Teffi & In The Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
The Story of Sonechka by Marina Tsvetaeva (w/ Inessa Fishbeyn and C. D. C. Reeve)
A look forward to June
The Moscoviad by Yuri Andrukhovych (w/ Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky)
I Live I See by Vsevolod Nekrasov (w/ trans. Bela Shayevich and Dr. Ainsley Morse)
Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov (w/ the author himself)
Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy (w/ Dr. Tatyana Gershkovich)
To Hell with Poets by Baqytgul Sarmekova (w/ translator Mirgul Kali)
I Burned at the Feast by Arseny Tarkovsky (w/ translators Philip J. Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev)
Cecil the Lion Had to Die by Stiazhkina (w/ translator Dominique Hoffman)
A Look Forward
The Talnikov Family by Avdotya Panaeva (w/ translator Fiona Bell)
A Hiatus, Kind of
December Break: The Performance by Sergei Dovlatov
Office Hours - Is Tolstoy still relevant?
The UnSimple by Taras Prokhasko
To Hell with Poets by Baqytgul Sarmekova
Office Hours - Why don't straight men read novels?
Strike! (1925) by Sergei Eisenstein
The Tears & Smiles of Things by Sodomora (w/ translators Dr. Roman Ivashkiv and Sabrina Jaszi)
Office Hours - Enrolling in Jordan Peterson Academy
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
Devil's Yard by Ivo Andrić
August Break - The Czech Manuscripts (w/ author Dr. David L. Cooper)
August Break - Ochre & Rust by Gandlevsky (w/translator Philip J. Metres)
August Break - Work Flows: Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture (w/ author Dr. Maya Vinokour)
Life and Fate (Part 3, Chs. 49-61) by Grossman
Life and Fate (Part 3, Chs. 19-48) by Grossman
Aelita (1924) by Protazanov
Office Hours - Answering r/Dostoevsky's hottest questions
Life and Fate (P. 2, Chs. 51-62, P.3 Chs. 1-18) by Grossman
The Body of the Soul by Ulitskaya
Office Hours - Ranking our best episodes
Life and Fate Read Along: Part 2, Chapter 49
Life and Fate Read Along: Part 2, Chapter 48
Life and Fate (P.2, Chs. 21-50) by Grossman
Work Flows: Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture (w/ author Dr. Maya Vinokour)
Office Hours - We Read This Book So You Don't Have To
Life and Fate (P.1 Chs. 61-70, P.2 Chs. 1-20) by Grossman
Light Breathing by Bunin
Office Hours - Do-stoevsky it for the 'gram, Empress Theresa
Life and Fate (P.1, Chs. 32-60) by Grossman
The Czech Manuscripts (w/ author Dr. David Cooper)
Office Hours - Dissertation, sea monsters, DostoevskyGPT
Life and Fate (P.1, Chs. 1-31) by Grossman
Ochre & Rust by Gandlevsky (w/translator Philip J. Metres)
Life and Fate Read Along: Part 1, Chapter 5
The Sulphur Spring by Durova/Alexandrov
Life and Fate Read Along: Part 1, Chapter 4
Life and Fate Read Along: Part 1, Chapter 3
Life and Fate Read Along: Part 1, Chapter 2
Life and Fate Read Along: Part 1, Chapter 1
December Break: The Sistine Madonna by Grossman
Coming Soon: Supporter Drive '23
We Need To Talk: Supporter Drive '23
SAVE OUR SHOW: Supporter Drive '23
The Master and Margarita (chs. 26-epilogue) by Bulgakov
A Volga Tale (The Pupil-The Son-The Children) by Yakhina
Office Hours - Life and Fate Chapter a Day Read Along 1/1/2024
The Master and Margarita (chs. 19-25) by Bulgakov
A Volga Tale (The Wife-The Daughter) by Yakhina
Solaris (1972) by Tarkovsky
The Master and Margarita (chs. 10-18) by Bulgakov
Signs and Symbols by Nabokov (w/ Drs. Sara Karpukhin and José Vergara)
Office Hours - "Literary" fiction, bookstagram, and questionable takes
The Master and Margarita (chs. 1-9) by Bulgakov
The Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoy (w/ Dr. Tatyana Gershkovich)
The Performance by Dovlatov
Leviathan (2014) by Zvyagintsev
An Out-Of-Tune Piano, An Accordion by Andrukhovych
On The Way: A Sketch by Khvoshchinskaya
A New Name, A New Look, The Same Show
June Break: The Captain's Daughter
June Break: The Orchard by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
June Break: Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina
Bonus 11 - June Break 2023 + What's Next