Tamizdat Project has launched The Tamizdat Review, a new bilingual quarterly online journal dedicated to Russophone culture and literature in exile.

The journal, published in English and Russian, features literary criticism, essays, interviews, and reviews exploring the contemporary cultural landscape shaped by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the resultant wave of emigration by numerous authors, artists, and other prominent cultural voices.

The inaugural issue features work on contemporary Russian and Tatar poets experimenting with AI music; literary criticism of authors Pavel Kushner and Viktor Shklovsky; a survey of Russophone drama since 2022; an overview of new and notable Russophone books; and much more.

The journal’s editor-in-chief is literary critic Lev Oborin, with Yasha Klots, Mark Lipovetsky, and Tatiana Krasilnikova serving on its editorial board.

The Tamizdat Review is open access and available to read now.

The Tamizdat Review is conceived of as a venue for discussing what happens in works [produced by the new culture of tamizdat], what debates they spark, and how connections are either maintained or broken within a literary field that encompasses Russia, the literary diaspora, and Russophone writing from other countries.