The Tamizdat Review.

Back in March I posted about the Tamizdat Project; today I learn from Lev Oborin’s Facebook post that the (bilingual) first issue of The Tamizdat Review is out, and it includes his own Sixteen New Notable Books (Russian version), “including novels by Leonid Bershidsky, Dmitry Bykov, and Anya Makeeva, poetry by Aleksandr Del’finov, a collection of historical studies devoted to the future, and an anthology that conceptualizes the loss of home.” A number of them sound intriguing, e.g. Pesni i sny narodov eseser (Songs and Dreams of the Peoples of the Uesesar) by Valery Nugatov: Valery Nugatov, one of the best Russian translators of French and English transgressive prose, spent several years writing serial poetry that varied linguistic clichés and sound patterns ad nauseam. Online, he adopted the persona of Deduzhgo Khossan, a parodic figure based on a Russian mafia boss that was murdered in 2013. Khossan spoke in a language distorted almost to the extent of gibberish—and, like his…

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