The Slavic Literature Pod
The Slavic Literature Pod is your guide to the literary traditions in and around the Slavic world. On each episode, Cameron Lallana sits down with scholars, translators and other experts to dive deep into big books, short stories, film, and everything in between. You’ll get an approachable introduction to the scholarship and big ideas surrounding these canons roughly two Fridays per month.
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Episodes (383)
Mosquito by Akhmet Baitursynov (with translator Jake Zawlacki)
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Sofia Petrova by Lydia Chukovskaya
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For Your Consideration: John Williams' Butcher's Crossing (and why I don't think...
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The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman + What Vasily Grossman and Life & Fa...
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PREP WORK: The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman
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A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov (w/ Dr. José Vergara)
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Chevengur by Andrei Platonov, Chapters 25-43
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Zvenihora (1928) directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko
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Anton Chekhov, Earliest Stories (w/ editors Rosamund Bartlett and Elena Michajlo...
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My five favorite films of the year + Sayat Nova, dir. by Sergei Parajanov
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Earth (1930) directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko
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Not Russian by Mikhail Shevelev (w/ Ally Pitts, host of A Russian & Soviet Movie...
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Chevengur, chapters 1-25, by Andrei Platonov
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The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman
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Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky and Delicious Hunger by Hai Fan
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An update, a reason to podcast, a look through October
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For Your Consideration: War Diary by Yevgenia Belorusets & The Time of Doves by...
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A message from Matt
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Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets & The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
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Alindarka's Children by Alhierd Bacharevič & Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
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Europe Central by William T. Vollmann & Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
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Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me by Teffi & In The Lake of the Woods by Tim O'B...
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The Story of Sonechka by Marina Tsvetaeva (w/ Inessa Fishbeyn and C. D. C. Reeve...
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A look forward to June
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The Moscoviad by Yuri Andrukhovych (w/ Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky)
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I Live I See by Vsevolod Nekrasov (w/ trans. Bela Shayevich and Dr. Ainsley Mors...
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Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov (w/ the author himself)
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Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy (w/ Dr. Tatyana Gershkovich)
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To Hell with Poets by Baqytgul Sarmekova (w/ translator Mirgul Kali)
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I Burned at the Feast by Arseny Tarkovsky (w/ translators Philip J. Metres and D...
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Cecil the Lion Had to Die by Stiazhkina (w/ translator Dominique Hoffman)
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A Look Forward
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The Talnikov Family by Avdotya Panaeva (w/ translator Fiona Bell)
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A Hiatus, Kind of
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December Break: The Performance by Sergei Dovlatov
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Office Hours - Is Tolstoy still relevant?
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The UnSimple by Taras Prokhasko
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To Hell with Poets by Baqytgul Sarmekova
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Office Hours - Why don't straight men read novels?
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Strike! (1925) by Sergei Eisenstein
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The Tears & Smiles of Things by Sodomora (w/ translators Dr. Roman Ivashkiv and...
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Office Hours - Enrolling in Jordan Peterson Academy
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The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
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Devil's Yard by Ivo Andrić
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August Break - The Czech Manuscripts (w/ author Dr. David L. Cooper)
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August Break - Ochre & Rust by Gandlevsky (w/translator Philip J. Metres)
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August Break - Work Flows: Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture (w/ author...
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Life and Fate (Part 3, Chs. 49-61) by Grossman
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Life and Fate (Part 3, Chs. 19-48) by Grossman
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Aelita (1924) by Protazanov
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