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How the Writer Listens: Svetlana Alexievich

For the past 30 years, Svetlana Alexievich has been writing one long book about the effect of communism and its demise on people in the former Soviet Bloc. Based on interviews, her books conjure a...

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“The Stone of Fear”

In solidarity with Belarusian people peacefully defending their dignity in the face of unprecedented abuse of power and massive-scale violence against them. Translated from Belarusian by Valzhyna Mort....

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The dictator of Belarus is trying to silence Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich.

Alexander Lukashenko, the first and only president of Belarus, a man who is often referred to as Europe’s sole dictator, has been lashing out like a cornered animal since mass protests began in his...

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Jaywalking in a Dictatorship: What We Risk For Justice, From the US to Belarus

I’ve walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don’t be fooled this isn’t a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here, our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, its...

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Interpreting America at the Minsk Book Fair

At the end of January this year, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko hosted US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Independence Palace, a glassy, corporate-looking building on Prospekte...

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Belarus has banned the sale of 1984.

In very 1984 news, Belarus has banned the sale of 1984. Belarusian weekly newspaper, Nasha Niva, reported that security forces detained Andrei Yanushkevich, publisher and bookstore owner, and...

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On the Dangers of Greatness: A Conversation with Svetlana Alexievich

An escape from history seems impossible for 2015 Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. After chronicling the Soviet Union through her “documentary novels,” her own genre often mistaken for oral history,...

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