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Alternative Russian Classics
Read all of Tolstoy? Sick of Gogol? Here are four Russian modern classics that you’ve probably missed. Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed, recommends her alternative favorites.
Elif Batuman
Published
Mar. 11 2010
4:57AM EST
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