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Quo Vadis. Warszawa: Prószyński i S-ka, 1995.

Front page of the 1730 woodblock print of Shujing

In February 2022, amidst the onset of the war in Ukraine, my mom and I went shopping: flour, rice, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, toilet paper, laundry detergent, and other common imported goods from Russia. Later that same spring, my uncle passed…

Image 1: Quiet Flows the Don. New York: Carrol & Graf Publishers, 1996.

Image 2: Quiet Flows the Don: a novel in four books. Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1984.

Image 3: Tikhii Don: roman v chetyrekh knigakh. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo…

Shoeless Yosuf... One of this westerner's childhood memories is children's books from Europe. They were in French, German, Russian, and thus "unreadable" but beloved just the same, and linguistic barriers contributed to their mystique. This…