
This week, Cameron (finally) dives into Lydia Chukovskaya's Sofia Petrovna. A novel about the Great Terror written during the Great Terror, Chukovskaya's eponymous character lives a fairly comfortable Soviet life -- until her son is arrested for an unspecified crime. Splitting its time between prison lines and a workplace growing rife with denunciations and arrests, Sofia Petrovna memorializes a moment most people would rather forget. It turns a mirror on the people who lived through the Great Terror and asks, too, "Who were you?" Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
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Ukrainian Literary Modernism (with Drs. Halyna Babak and Yuliya Ilchuk)

Mosquito by Akhmet Baitursynov (with translator Jake Zawlacki)

For Your Consideration: John Williams' Butcher's Crossing (and why I don't think we should compare it to Blood Meridian)

The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman + What Vasily Grossman and Life & Fate mean today
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