Why Do We Travel? On Erika Fatland’s ‘Sovietistan’
Social anthropologist Erika Fatland eschews many of the clichés of Post-Soviet travel writing, providing an incident-packed trip to a vast, often-overlooked region in Sovietistan.
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‘Impossible Saints’ Is an Empathetic Portrayal of a Starry-eyed Suffragette
This telling of fictional suffragette Lilia Brooke could use more politics, less romance.
Can Yiddish Humor Topple the Tower of Babel?
Devorah Baum's The Jewish Joke reminds us of a distinct commonality.