“It is a play of agony, but it is not a tragedy. Suffering, yes; but in no sense defeat.” Bryan Karetnyk on cryptic, carnal works by an uncompromising Russian poet the-tls.co.uk/literature/poe…

Out today! ⚗️ The Life of the ‘Last Universal Genius’ 🧥 A Rediscovered Classic 🚂 A Japanese Railway Mystery 🐡 A luminous trip into the unexplored ocean depths pushkinpress.com More info 👇👇👇

🚂 Early one June morning, locomotive No.783 screams to a halt. A man’s body lies next to the railway tracks, shot in the back… The Black Swan Mystery by Tetsuya Ayukawa, translated by Bryan Karetnyk Bryan Karetnyk - winner of the Mystery Writers of Japan Award Out now!

This week’s The TLS, featuring Stephen Romer on Eliot’s prose; Carol Tavris on political divides; Ritchie Robertson on the Brothers Grimm; Daniel Susskind on David Graeber; Bryan Karetnyk on Yukio Mishima; Lillian Crawford on Mary C. McCall Jr – and more

I’m in The TLS today—alongside many worthier contributors, including Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦 and Bryan Karetnyk—with a piece on Julian Evans’s remarkable new book about my hometown, Odesa. UNDEFEATABLE is the word. the-tls.co.uk/history/twenti…

Today in the ARB: mhillis reviews “The Black Swan Mystery” by Tetsuya Ayukawa tr from Japanese by Bryan Karetnyk Pushkin Press asianreviewofbooks.com/the-black-swan…

This week’s The TLS, featuring Aaron Peck on art and AI; Lisa Hilton on Picasso; Houman Barekat on Adichie’s new novel; Padraic X. Scanlan on slavery and wealth; Bryan Karetnyk on Japanese poetry; Franklin Nelson on Aimé Césaire, Irina Dumitrescu on Sholem Aleichem – and more

'The Hundred Poets stands alongside The Tales of Ise and The Tale of Genji as a quintessential work of Japanese classical literature.' Bryan Karetnyk (Bryan Karetnyk) on classic anthologies of Japanese poetry in new translations the-tls.co.uk/literature/poe…

Read a glimpse of The TLS review by Bryan Karetnyk of Joshua Mostow's HYAKUNIN'SHU: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late #Edo #Japan. #classicalpoetry #waka

'The Legend of Kamui presents a panoramic view of Japanese society in the 1640s, full of intrigue and biting social critique.' Bryan Karetnyk (Bryan Karetnyk): A cult graphic series about class struggle in Shogun-era Japan the-tls.co.uk/literature/fic…

'The prophetic quality of the title seems to echo the famous Soviet-era call to arms ‘Holy War’.' Bryan Karetnyk (Bryan Karetnyk) on poetry about the very idea of Russia and its past, present and future the-tls.co.uk/literature/poe…

'Holy Winter retains a distinct lyric voice that is at once cultured and intimate, eloquent and immediate.' - Bryan Karetnyk, in The TLS of 2 May, on Maria Stepanova's book-length poem Holy Winter 20/21, translated by Sasha Dugdale. the-tls.co.uk/literature/poe…

We invite you to join us for a talk with Roma Liberov, compiler of the trilingual poetry collection “Condemned to All that Fate Assigns”, discussing the voices and fate of Russian émigré poets in the early twentieth century. 📍Thursday 3 July, 7–8.30pm 🎟️pushkinhouse.org/whats-on/event…

This week’s TLS, featuring James Marcus and Douglas Field on Mark Twain; Edward Luttwak on ‘Zbig’; Jane Caplan on tattoos; Mia Levitin on dinner-party novels; Bryan Karetnyk on Stalin and memory; Seb Falk on flight; Irina Dumitrescu on Christina of Markyate – and much more

'In Russia, fact and record shift like quicksand.' Bryan Karetnyk: How Stalin shaped the Soviet collective memory the-tls.com/history/twenti…

Waterstones THRILLER OF THE MONTH🐈‍⬛ Murder at the Black Cat Cafe is the latest book from the Japanese Agatha Christie, Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Bryan Karetnyk A dizzyingly clever rediscovered GEM of Japanese Golden Age crime Your perfect next spooky szn read is OUT NOW🚨

Calling all crime (and cat) lovers! 🐈‍⬛ Murder at the Black Cat Café is on The Sunday Times Top-Ten Fiction Bestsellers List for the third week running! 🎉 Find out more – and get your copy – here: pushkinpress.com/book/murder-at…

For Asymptote Journal's blog, I reviewed Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev by Maxim Gorky, translated from the Russian by Brian Karetnyk Fitzcarraldo Editions asymptotejournal.com/blog/new-in-tr…

For the afternoon crowd - my thoughts on a great new release from Fitzcarraldo Editions translated by Bryan Karetnyk - a marvellous set of reminiscences by Gorky!