Sophie Pinkham Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Sophie Pinkham writes about Russian and Ukrainian culture, history, and politics. Essays @nybooks, @harpers, etc. Author of Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine. Working on a cultural history of forests in Russia & beyond.
Alindarka's Children: Things Will Be Bad
Alhierd BacharevicSophie PinkhamI wrote about a wild and fascinating Belarusian novel called "Alindarka's Children (Things Will Be Bad)". It's a Gulag fairy tale about the survival of an endangered language in a hostile empire. And the translation is...partly in Scots! https://t.co/iG2R4mSIqy
Paperback, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change
Thane GustafsonSophie Pinkhamwith its focus on the future of Russia’s energy, grain, and metals markets, all of which have been reconfigured by the war and the new sanctions, Klimat could hardly be more timely.
Hardcover, 2021
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The Orphanage
Serhiy ZhadanSophie PinkhamA gray, marginal world in which life is punctuated by bursting shells and the ebb and flow of soldiers from either side... Ambient dread gives the novel a dystopian flavor, but Zhadan is writing about real life... [and he] captures [it] with his signature jocularity.
Paperback, 2021
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Raising Raffi: The First Five Years
Keith GessenSophie PinkhamCongrats to @keithgessen and de facto co-author @EmilyGould on Raising Raffi! I especially loved the chapters on bilingual childrearing & lives of children's writers (war, socialism, purges!). Somebody should make a miniseries about the Chukovskys... https://t.co/8gXlRUD6HV
Hardcover, 2022
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Matrix
Lauren GroffSophie PinkhamAre nuns having a moment? Saw Benedetta last night—as kitschy, taut, and delightfully amoral as I’d hoped. Then this morning I read @irinibus’s hilarious review of a novel reimagining Marie de France as a McKinsey-style convent consultant—terrifying! https://bit.ly/3lVqmnG
Paperback, 2022
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Red Plenty
Francis SpuffordSophie PinkhamI finally read "Red Plenty." I didn't think I could love a book about the USSR written by someone who doesn't speak a word of Russian...I didn't think I could be moved almost to tears by the death of the Soviet cybernetics program...I was wrong! https://t.co/1vuFhQBslc
Paperback, 2012
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