Homeward from Heaven by Boris Poplavsky new-non-fiction What explains Putin's enduring popularity

What explains Putin's enduring popularity in Russia

Translated by Maria Bloshteyn

Baltic art speaks out against the erasure of past historical traumas and analyses the pertinence of its cultural scene to the European community

a dog-headed poet and philosopher who feasts on carrion from the battlefield

carnivalesque and cruel

Homeward from Heaven by Boris Poplavsky new-non-fiction What explains Putin's enduring popularityHomeward from Heaven is Boris Poplavsky's masterpiece, written just before his life was cut short by a drug overdose at the age of thirty two. Set in Paris and on the French Riviera, this final novel by the literary enfant terrible of the interwar Russian diaspora in France recounts the escapades, malaise, and love affairs of a bohemian group of Russian expatriates. The novel's protagonist and sometime narrator is Oleg, whose intense love for two