Poetry
Spring 1966
Being Unhappy
Being unhappy is never the question.Ask, instead, what pacifiesthe too-complicated mind.Not faith prevails there; no ideaentertains it; nobody calls.The dog at the door is always barking. Fulminous the cook in […]
Poetry
Summer 1965
Look at These Moscow Pictures
The Moscow University Preparatory School for Young Nobles. On the Corner of Tver Street (Gorki Street) and Newspaper Alley (Ogarev Street). The Building Has Not Been Preserved. —Photograph caption Look […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1964
The Work of Russian Poetry Today
We deal only fragmentarily with any culture of which we do not know the poetry. The essence of a culture is its language; the essence of a language is its […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1963
Listen for the Pistol Shot
Fantastic Stories by Abram Tertz. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley. Pantheon Books, $3.95 Some cultural characteristics are formally national: we speak of the Elizabethan or […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1963
The House of the Living
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In two translations: by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley (Frederick A. Praeger, $3.95) and Ralph Parker (E. P. Dutton, […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1963
A Geometry of Prose
Petersburg, Andrei Belyi’s startling novel, can be read in many ways. It may be read as satire on a complacent, empty-headed autocracy; as a symbolic city-scape haunted by bigotry, stupidity, […]
Poetry
Summer 1962
Pictures in a Hotel Room
Over and over, a green-blue wind Feathers the waves on the orange ocean On the opposite wall. Behind Our hunched backs a lady’s devotion, Naked except for the pelvic region, […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1960
Doctor Zhivago: From Prose to Verse
The most unusual aspect of Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago is the group of poems which constitutes the seventeenth section of the novel. Technically and thematically, they are an integral part of […]