Boris Dralyuk is the Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is a literary translator and holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught Russian literature for a number of years. He has also taught at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, The Paris Review, The Guardian, Granta, World Literature Today, The Yale Review, The Hopkins Review, New England Review, Harvard Review, Jewish Quarterly, and other journals. He is the author of Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934 (Brill, 2012) and translator of several volumes from Russian and Polish, including Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales (Columbia University Press, 2018), Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry (Pushkin Press, 2015) and Odessa Stories (Pushkin Press, 2016), Maxim Osipov’s Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Other Stories (NYRB Classics, 2019, with Alex Fleming and Anne Marie Jackson), and Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees (MacLehose Press, 2020). He is also the editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution (Pushkin Press, 2016), and co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski, of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015). His website is bdralyuk.wordpress.com. On Twitter @BorisDralyuk. (Photograph by Jennifer Croft.)
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
One Story: A Conversation with Janet Fitch About “The Revolution of Marina M.” and “Chimes of a Lost Cathedral”
Boris Dralyuk asks Janet Fitch about poetry, film, and her latest novel, “Chimes of a Lost Cathedral,” the continuation of “The Revolution of Marina M.”...
The Black Disk of the Sun: On Brian J. Boeck’s Biography of Mikhail Sholokhov, “Stalin’s Scribe”
Boris Dralyuk appreciates a “riveting political biography” of Mikhail Sholokhov, “Stalin’s Scribe” by Brian J. Boeck....
LARB Radio Hour: It's the Soviet Holiday Show!
Host Boris Dralyuk is joined by his fellow soviet-emigre Sasha Razor, and Slavic Scholar David MacFadyen, to conjure the spirit of ...
Making a Man of the Mad Monk
Douglas Smith’s new biography of “Mad Monk” Rasputin brings him into the human realm....
Radio Hour: Despina Stratigakos's "Hitler at Home" & Nicholson Baker on Nabokov's "Speak, Memory"
Subscribe on iTunes - Listen Live on KPFK Despina Stratigakos, author of Hitler at Home, joins Laurie and co-host ...
All Is Permitted, All Over Again: Oliver Ready’s Translation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”
Oliver Ready's translation of Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" shows what reactionary work it was....
Radio Hour: Karolina Waclawiak and Boris Dralyuk
Karolina Waclawiak's The Invaders, Boris Dralyuk on the literary footprint of Russian immigrants in Los Angeles, and reading Paul Beatty’s The Sellout....
Vladimir Nabokov, American Vagabond
Vladimir Nabokov wasn’t born in the USA — and that made his take on America important....
Radio Hour: The Success of Amy Schumer, Genre Fiction, and Russian Noir
This week's show features TV writer Betsy Borns on the success of comedian Amy Schumer, as well as Gary Phillips, Boris Dralyuk, and Meri Nana-Ama Danquah....
“There Is, But We’ll Never Know”
Boris Dralyuk on Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's detective novel....
The Land of Columbus: Echoes of LA’s Russian Past
The lost Russians and found books of Los Angeles....
“… With the remote shine of dead planets”: A New Year’s Meeting in Los Angeles
On Christopher Isherwood and Henri Coulette....
Knowing It Has to End
Noir's rap is bleak, nihilistic, hardbitten. But at heart it's a deeply emotional genre and a deeply nostalgic one....
The Incomplete Cain
On the grim hardness of a neglected noir master....
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