Konstantin Vaginov (1899–1934) belonged to the Bakhtin circle and the OBERIU group. Translations of four novels by Ainsley Morse and Geoff Cebula are forthcoming from NYRB.
Tim Schwab is the author of the forthcoming book, The Bill Gates Problem, and has appeared in The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, and the British Medical Journal.
Laura Robson is the author of several books on displacement in the modern Middle East. Her most recent is Human Capita: A History of Putting Refugees to Work (2023).
Eugene Ostashevsky is the author, most recently, of The Feeling Sonnets. His most recent translation is Lucky Breaks by the Ukrainian fiction writer Yevgenia Belorusets.
Helen Epstein is the visiting professor of Human Rights and Global Public Health at Bard College and the author of The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa.