On Vladimir Vysotsky’s 87th Birthday
Every January 25, I ask myself the same question: if Vladimir Vysotsky hadn’t left us in 1980 at just 42,...
January 25, 2025
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Eternal Lovers, Endless Nights: “Only Lovers Left Alive” (2013/Film)
This article is based on notes made in 2016, 2018, and 2024. Screen grabs via screenmusings.org. In the late months...
January 22, 2025
The Soviet Underground
This article was originally written for Literary Kicks in 2002. I have made some major edits in 2025. In the...
January 19, 2025
Victor Luferov: The Bard
I was 16 years old when I first heard Victor Luferov’s song Meeting (Встреча). I had discovered a website created...
January 18, 2025
Focus: “The Newborn” by Luigi Monteverde
Monteverde’s ability to take something so small, so ordinary—a mother stepping into sunlight—and make it feel sacred.
January 14, 2025
The Last Drink: Writers & Alcohol
There’s a certain familiarity in the way writers are drawn to alcohol—an orbit of longing, self-doubt, and solace.
January 13, 2025
Behind the Sky: The Life and Works of Paul Bowles
An expatriate who seemed to thrive in creative obscurity even as the world clambered at his door, Bowles is remembered as a singular voice—a composer turned novelist whose works transported readers into unsettling, alien landscapes where psychological disintegration loomed large.
January 12, 2025
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