by Ronald Meyer | Apr 13, 2025 | Humanities, News, Read, Russia
In celebration of its 90th anniversary, Penguin Classics has reissued 90 volumes in its new series, The Penguin Archive. Ronald Meyer’s translation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man” is among those selected for the Archive....
by Ronald Meyer | Apr 10, 2025 | Contemporary Culture, News, Read, Russia
Ronald Meyer published the essay “My Years at Ardis,” about his tenure as Senior Editor at Ardis Publishers in the 1980s. At the time, Ardis was the largest publisher of Russian literature in translation and in the original Russian. The work was published...
by Ronald Meyer | Mar 16, 2025 | Alumni, News, Russia
Bradley Gorski’s (Slavic Ph.D. ’18) “Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market after Socialism” was just released by Cornell University Press in its Northern Illinois University Slavic, East European and Eurasian series. It is the newest...
by Ronald Meyer | Mar 10, 2025 | Alumni, ECEC, News, Read, War in Ukraine
In her article “Can We Trust the Russian Opposition to Bring Meaningful Change?” Maria Chukhnova (MARS-REERS ’20) writes: “Russian opposition leaders, often portrayed in the Western media as champions of democracy and reform, position themselves as...
by Ronald Meyer | Feb 28, 2025 | Contemporary Culture, News, Read, Russia
Tatiana Efremova (Harriman Postdoctoral Scholar 2022-24; currently Assistant Professor of Russian at GW University) is co-editor with Kevin Platt (U Penn), of the cluster “Sergei Shnurov, Leningrad, and the Ends of Irony,” which takes up most of the Winter...
