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SHORT STORIES
"The Wolves" in Longreads, 2018 (originally in Tin House, 2017)
"The Unmailed Letter" in Granta, 2017
"The Witch" and an interview with the author in Granta (for the New Voices series), 2010
NONFICTION
"A Voice Frozen" on The Drunken Odyssey blog, April 2015 - an essay about historical truth in fiction and the real life inspiration for my short story "Our Upstairs Neighbor."
Essay on my favorite Jhumpa Lahiri story, "The Third and Final Continent" on Bookanista, 2014
"A Dose of Winter Medicine" in Granta, 2012 - a memoir piece about bribing one's way into a hospital after grandmother, an award-winning medic, suffers a stroke
"Selling Your First Soul" in Granta, 2011 - on returning to Russia after 13 years
"Staying Current by Retelling the Past" - Our Stories Literary Journal blog entry, 2010
"Babi Yar Triangle, Brooklyn" in Hitotoki, New York Tales from Curious Borough Dwellers
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Sankya by Zakhar Prilepin, translated by Mariya Gusev and Jeff Parker (Dzanc Books, 2014) for Three Percent Blog
"The Letter from Death" in The Brooklyn Rail, 2010 - a review of The Letter from Death by Lillian Moats, Illustrations by David J. Moats, Forward by Howard Zinn (Three Arts Press, 2010)
"Everything Where?" in The Brooklyn Rail, 2010 - a review of Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever by Justin Taylor (Harper Perennial, 2010)
"Soviet Caesars and State Raincoats" in The Brooklyn Rail, 2009 - a review of The Golden Calf by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov (OPEN LETTER, 2009)