Yuliya Komska 🇺🇦 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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Cold War cultural historian • Borders, language(s) • Co-wrote "Linguistic Disobedience" • Now: bio of Curious George & the tightrope • German prof, forager 🐇
Real Estate: A Living Autobiography
Deborah LevyYuliya Komska 🇺🇦Deborah Levy’s Real Estate is actually quite good
Paperback, 2022
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCannYuliya Komska 🇺🇦Started Colum McCann’s Let the Great World spin, and— 😍 @SashaHemon https://t.co/CJujur2DJA
Paperback, 2009
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire
Roberto J. CarmackYuliya Komska 🇺🇦Also: Schechter, The Stuff of Soldiers; Carmack, Kazakhstan in World War II; Jeff Eden, God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War; Budnitskii, Shternshis, et al. Jews in the Soviet Union: A History War, Conquest, and Catastrophe, 1939–1945
Hardcover, 2019
$54.99Member price:$54.99 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
The Wallcreeper
Nell ZinkYuliya Komska 🇺🇦@laurenstokes I’d recommend Nell Zink’s The Wallcreeper (at least partially) if you haven’t read it yet
Paperback, 2014
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self
Julie SedivyYuliya Komska 🇺🇦A brilliant passage on pain/trauma as a factor in language loss, involving forgetting Russian under Stalin, from Julie Sedivy's memoir "Memory Speaks." https://t.co/skZmomYEHn
Hardcover, 2021
$29.95Member price:$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War
Jeff EdenYuliya Komska 🇺🇦Also: Schechter, The Stuff of Soldiers; Carmack, Kazakhstan in World War II; Jeff Eden, God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War; Budnitskii, Shternshis, et al. Jews in the Soviet Union: A History War, Conquest, and Catastrophe, 1939–1945
Hardcover, 2021
$125.00Member price:$125.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic
Elisabeth BronfenYuliya Komska 🇺🇦@dacretu Elisabeth Bronfen, Over Her Dead Body—not a historian, and not about war, but essential for understanding the kinds of images that war + gender beget
Paperback, 1992
$37.95Member price:$37.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
East of the West: A Country in Stories
Miroslav PenkovYuliya Komska 🇺🇦Finally got around to Miroslav Penkov’s “East of the West,” which does incredible somersaults to flip between completely different narrator perspectives story to story, and this about learning English in the US of A is just too true. https://t.co/MrDBXxFodn
Paperback, 2012
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
Kapka KassabovaYuliya Komska 🇺🇦@adriandaub More contemporary, if you could use them: Kapka Kassabova's "Border" (esp. if teaching Rebecca West); I also think of Jhumpa Lahiri's Italian books as travel literature, they're full of spatial notions
Paperback, 2017
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Extreme North: A Cultural History
Bernd BrunnerYuliya Komska 🇺🇦I’m alternating Bernd Brunner’s book on the invention of the extreme north with Dörte Hansen’s Zur See, about the rough northern seas and will segue to Dorthe Norse’s book about the Danish coast and then the Moomins… We’ve not lost power yet but I’m already feeling SO cold
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