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Nonfiction Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag Julius Margolin, Stefani Hoffman (trans.)
Nonfiction Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women’s Voices from the Gulag Monika Zgustova, Julie Jones (trans.)
Nonfiction Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews: Antisemitism, Propaganda, and the Displacement of Ukrainian Jewry Sam Sokol
Interview—From the Journal ‘You Shouldn’t Go around Hugging Bears’: A Conversation with Keith Gessen Rebecca Schuman April 20, 2020
Nonfiction Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (a Memoir with Recipes) Boris Fishman
Fiction Klotsvog Margarita Khemlin (auth.), Lisa Hayden (trans.), Lara Vapnyar (fwd.)
Excerpt Little Rooster: A Story from David Bezmozgis’s New Collection Ten years after my grandfather died, I found myself sorting through a shallow plastic bin that held the accumulated documentation of his life. David Bezmozgis May 8, 2019
Essay—From the Journal Papa Stalin and the Happy Family On Communist Yiddish children’s books in the Soviet Union and United States. Miriam Udel April 29, 2019
