Articles by U.R. Bowie (Posted on blog “U.R. Bowie on Russian Literature” and on Dactyl Review Website)

 

Articles by U.R. Bowie

(Posted on blog “U.R. Bowie on Russian Literature” and on Dactyl Review Website)

[As of August 4, 2023]

 

Book Review Articles

Lee K. Abbott, ALL THINGS ALL AT ONCE

Julian Barnes, THE SENSE OF AN ENDING

Elif Batuman, THE IDIOT

Charles Baxter, THE FEAST OF LOVE

Charles Baxter, THERE’S SOMETHING I WANT YOU TO DO

David Bezmozgis, THE FREE WORLD

David Bezmozgis, THE BETRAYERS

Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler

J.M. Coetzee, THE MASTER OF PETERSBURG

Don DeLillo, LIBRA

Jeffrey Eugenides, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES

Penelope Fitzgerald, THE BEGINNING OF SPRING

Ford Madox Ford, THE GOOD SOLDIER

Michael Frayn, THE TRICK OF IT

Paul Fung, DOSTOEVSKY AND THE EPILEPTIC MODE OF BEING

Nadine Gordimer, THE PICKUP

Lauren Groff, FLORIDA

Petrie Harbouri, THE BROTHERS CARBURI

Aleksandar Hemon, THE MAKING OF ZOMBIE WARS

Aleksandar Hemon, LOVE AND OBSTACLES

Kazuo Ishiguro, A PALE VIEW OF HILLS

Cormac McCarthy, THE ROAD

Ian McEwan, NUTSHELL

Ian McEwan, ENDURING LOVE

Vladimir Nabokov, LETTERS TO VERA

Viet Thanh Nguyen, THE SYMPATHIZER

Edna O’Brien, NIGHT

Tim O'Brien, THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

Tea Obreht, THE TIGER'S WIFE

Sarah Quigley, THE CONDUCTOR

Sam Riviere, DEAD SOULS

René de Saint-Denis, THE SONGS AND LAMENTS OF LOŌMOS  

George Saunders, CIVILWARLAND in BAD DECLINE

George Saunders, TENTH OF DECEMBER

George Saunders, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO

Marian Schwartz Translation of ANNA KARENINA

W.G. Sebald, AUSTERLITZ

Maxim D. Shrayer, LEAVING RUSSIA: A JEWISH STORY

Maxim D. Shrayer, BUNIN AND NABOKOV

Olga Tokarczuk, FLIGHTS

Yury Tynyanov, YOUNG PUSHKIN

Meg Wolitzer (editor), THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, 2017

 

Miscellaneous Articles

 

THE GREAT BOONDOGGLE OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY

A Personal and Critical Essay on FLANNERY O'CONNOR

THE DANCING BEAR IN THE GRAND RUSSIAN ROUND AND ROUND

Russian Attitudes toward Humor and Irony: NIKOLAI GOGOL

The Onomastics of the Russian Leaders (The History of Surnames)

On the Russian "Narod" (Common Man) and On Playing Games of Make Believe

THE TATAR YOKE AND THE CHECHEN WARS

ON LITERARY TRANSLATION. Translating Substandard Speech (просторечие), IVAN BUNIN

ON LITERARY TRANSLATION: "Sympathy for the Traitor"

ISAAC BABEL THE LAUGHER

ISAAC BABEL THE SUBVERSIVE, THE INCENDIARY

ISAAC BABEL THE JEW

ISAAC BABEL DRINKS TEA

ISAAC BABEL IN PEREDELKINO

ISAAC BABEL ON WRITING

ISAAC BABEL'S "SIN OF JESUS" THE GOGOLIAN ORCHESTRATION OF VOICES

U.R. BOWIE TRANSLATES BABEL'S "SIN OF JESUS" INTO ENGLISH

ISAAC BABEL. FINAL DAYS OF TORMENT. DIRE FOREBODINGS

MAX ERNST and The Transgressive Nature of Looking

ON GEORGE SAUNDERS ANALYSIS OF ANTON CHEKHOV STORY, “In the Cart”

SHE OF THE ICE-BLUE EYES: Ariadna Efron (1912-1975)