Bryan Karetnyk
@Bryan_S_K
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Editor, translator, critic | all things émigré | odds and ends for @TheTLS, @Spectator and @FT
London | United Kingdom
Joined July 2012
Isn’t it a beauty! So proud of this little number, which is out this week (and already pick for book of the week over at @TheNewWorldmag!) Find out about Gorky’s Reminiscences – and more importantly, get the book – here: https://t.co/PkRpzKw9rP
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📚 Calling all fans of Yuri Felsen! 📚 @Pushkin_House (London) is hosting a launch event on 10 March at 7pm, to celebrate the publication of “Happiness”. I’ll be in conversation with Matthew Janney and Maria Rubins. Please do join us! Find out more here:
pushkinhouse.org
Book Launch: Book launch of “Happiness” by Yuri Felsen, with Bryan Karetnyk, Matthew Janney and Maria Rubins
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We've been busy finalising the details of these exciting upcoming events. All of these events will take place at our shop on St Stephen St; the start time for all events is 6.30pm. Tickets are £6 or FREE if you buy the featured book. Sign up in the shop or on our website.
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Look what I’ve got!… 📚 ARC copies of Yuri Felsen’s wonderful novel ‘Happiness’ (the continuation of his much-acclaimed ‘Deceit’) – publishing on 12 March! Read more and pre-order your copy now! https://t.co/OFKjhYKrhw
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For the afternoon crowd - my thoughts on a great new release from @FitzcarraldoEds translated by @Bryan_S_K - a marvellous set of reminiscences by Gorky!
On the blog today, a fascinating new release from @FitzcarraldoEds in which Gorky shares his memories of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev - translated by Bryan Karetnyk - more here!
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For @asymptotejrnl's blog, I reviewed Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev by Maxim Gorky, translated from the Russian by Brian Karetnyk @FitzcarraldoEds
https://t.co/R7XtPk21ZB
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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: https://t.co/6YAHfhIcq7
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@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🚨
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'In Russia, fact and record shift like quicksand.' Bryan Karetnyk: How Stalin shaped the Soviet collective memory
the-tls.com
An old Soviet joke runs: “Only the future is certain: the past is unpredictable”. It remains timely, but the sentiment it encapsulates has a longstanding
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This week’s TLS, featuring @jamesamarcus and @misbehavingmonk on Mark Twain; Edward Luttwak on ‘Zbig’; Jane Caplan on tattoos; @mialevitin on dinner-party novels; @Bryan_S_K on Stalin and memory; Seb Falk on flight; @irinibus on Christina of Markyate – and much more
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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 🎟️ https://t.co/PgbYgTgGPO
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'Holy Winter retains a distinct lyric voice that is at once cultured and intimate, eloquent and immediate.' - @Bryan_S_K, in @TheTLS of 2 May, on Maria Stepanova's book-length poem Holy Winter 20/21, translated by Sasha Dugdale. https://t.co/Wrwf1LYPaN
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'The prophetic quality of the title seems to echo the famous Soviet-era call to arms ‘Holy War’.' Bryan Karetnyk (@Bryan_S_K) on poetry about the very idea of Russia and its past, present and future https://t.co/cr7W77a5Ns
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“The plot always thickens in winter / All roads lead right to it”, says a voice in Maria Stepanova’s book-length poem Holy Winter 20/21. For the Russian
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'The Legend of Kamui presents a panoramic view of Japanese society in the 1640s, full of intrigue and biting social critique.' Bryan Karetnyk (@Bryan_S_K): A cult graphic series about class struggle in Shogun-era Japan https://t.co/1gkR7FOgG3
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Early on in The Legend of Kamui, the cult graphic novel by Shirato Sanpei (1932–2021), we witness a gut-wrenching scene. Kichibei, the leader of a quelled
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Read a glimpse of @TheTLS review by @Bryan_S_K of Joshua Mostow's HYAKUNIN'SHU: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late #Edo #Japan. #classicalpoetry #waka
'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_S_K) on classic anthologies of Japanese poetry in new translations
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'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_S_K) on classic anthologies of Japanese poetry in new translations
the-tls.com
“My feelings are buffeted by the frothy white waves”, laments a courtesan in “Sue no chigiri”, a popular Japanese song written at the turn of the
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This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Aaron Peck on art and AI; Lisa Hilton on Picasso; @HoumanBarekat on Adichie’s new novel; Padraic X. Scanlan on slavery and wealth; @Bryan_S_K on Japanese poetry; @franklinlnelson on Aimé Césaire, @irinibus on Sholem Aleichem – and more
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Today in the ARB: @mhillis reviews “The Black Swan Mystery” by Tetsuya Ayukawa tr from Japanese by Bryan Karetnyk @PushkinPress
https://t.co/ztE5HiN9i8
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I’m in @TheTLS today—alongside many worthier contributors, including @BlackerUilleam and @Bryan_S_K—with a piece on @thejulianevans’s remarkable new book about my hometown, Odesa. UNDEFEATABLE is the word. https://t.co/FP2TbEfzNR
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This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Stephen Romer on Eliot’s prose; Carol Tavris on political divides; Ritchie Robertson on the Brothers Grimm; @danielsusskind on David Graeber; @Bryan_S_K on Yukio Mishima; Lillian Crawford on Mary C. McCall Jr – and more
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