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For Your Consideration: John Williams' Butcher's Crossing (and why I don't think we should compare it to Blood Meridian)
Jun 12, 2026
1h 23m 22s
The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman + What Vasily Grossman and Life & Fate mean today
May 3, 2026
1h 36m 02s
PREP WORK: The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman
Apr 3, 2026
51m 18s
A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov (w/ Dr. José Vergara)
Mar 20, 2026
1h 05m 31s
Chevengur by Andrei Platonov, Chapters 25-43
Mar 6, 2026
1h 45m 03s
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| 6/12/26 | ![]() For Your Consideration: John Williams' Butcher's Crossing (and why I don't think we should compare it to Blood Meridian)✨ | John WilliamsButcher's Crossing+5 | — | BandcampYoutube+3 | — | Butcher's CrossingBlood Meridian+5 | — | 1h 23m 22s | |
| 5/3/26 | ![]() The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman + What Vasily Grossman and Life & Fate mean today✨ | film adaptationVasily Grossman+3 | — | Vlasovite Russian Liberation ArmyПеремотка+2 | — | Frederick WisemanVasily Grossman+5 | — | 1h 36m 02s | |
| 4/3/26 | ![]() PREP WORK: The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman✨ | Frederick Wisemanfilm analysis+3 | — | The Last LetterLife and Fate | — | Frederick WisemanThe Last Letter+5 | — | 51m 18s | |
| 3/20/26 | ![]() A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov (w/ Dr. José Vergara)✨ | Sasha SokolovA School for Fools+3 | Dr. José Vergara | Bryn Mawr CollegePeremotka+5 | — | Sasha SokolovA School for Fools+3 | — | 1h 05m 31s | |
| 3/6/26 | ![]() Chevengur by Andrei Platonov, Chapters 25-43✨ | Andrei PlatonovChevengur+4 | — | ПеремоткаChevengur | — | ChevengurAndrei Platonov+5 | — | 1h 45m 03s | |
| 2/13/26 | ![]() Zvenihora (1928) directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko✨ | Ukrainian historySoviet film+3 | — | Старое Кино / Staroye KinoПеремотка / Peremotka+2 | — | ZvenihoraOleksandr Dovzhenko+5 | — | 1h 52m 47s | |
| 1/21/26 | ![]() Anton Chekhov, Earliest Stories (w/ editors Rosamund Bartlett and Elena Michajlowska)✨ | Anton Chekhovearly stories+3 | Elena MichajlowskaRosamund Bartlett | Anton Chekhov FoundationPushkin House+1 | — | Chekhovstories+3 | — | 1h 09m 57s | |
| 1/1/26 | ![]() My five favorite films of the year + Sayat Nova, dir. by Sergei Parajanov✨ | film analysisfavorite films+4 | — | Dreamland CinemaПеремотка+2 | — | Sayat NovaSergei Parajanov+3 | — | 42m 29s | |
| 12/5/25 | ![]() Earth (1930) directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko✨ | Ukrainian cinemaavant-garde film+3 | — | BandcampYoutube+1 | — | EarthOleksandr Dovzhenko+5 | — | 1h 13m 45s | |
| 11/21/25 | ![]() Not Russian by Mikhail Shevelev (w/ Ally Pitts, host of A Russian & Soviet Movie Podcast)✨ | Russian literaturejournalism+3 | Ally Pitts | A Russian & Soviet Movie PodcastПеремотка+1 | — | Mikhail ShevelevNot Russian+3 | — | 1h 53m 41s | |
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| 10/27/25 | ![]() Chevengur, chapters 1-25, by Andrei Platonov✨ | Andrei PlatonovChevengur+4 | — | ПеремоткаChevengur+2 | — | Andrei PlatonovChevengur+6 | — | 1h 11m 05s | |
| 9/26/25 | ![]() The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman✨ | World War IIVasily Grossman+4 | — | Старое Кино / Staroye KinoПеремотка / Peremotka+10 | — | Vasily GrossmanThe People Immortal+6 | — | 1h 17m 31s | |
| 9/16/25 | ![]() Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky and Delicious Hunger by Hai Fan | Show Notes:This week, Cameron dives into Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic and Hai Fan’s Delicious Hunger, trying to probe the question plaguing recent episodes: “What is the value of art during wartime?”Deaf Republic tells an all-too-familiar parable of a town under occupation, subjected to abuse and murder, and how the people there chose their own forms of resistance to occupation. Delicious Hunger tackles the issue from another angle: Hai Fan is the pen name for Ang Tiam Huat, a guerilla who fought for the Malaysian Communist Party for over a decade. His book fictionalizes the stories and struggles of his comrades during their years in the rainforest. Hai Fan’s interview during Ethos Books’ launch party for Delicious Hunger.The music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Our links: Website | Discord Socials: Instagram | BlueSky | Twitter | FacebookQuestions, comments, want to hear your voice on a bonus episode? Send us an email at slaviclitpod@gmail.com.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands | 1h 19m 59s | ||||||
| 9/12/25 | ![]() An update, a reason to podcast, a look through October | We were supposed to talk about Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic and Fan Hai's Delicious Hunger today, but the episode's audio is trapped on a dead computer. You can look forward to listening to (a probably re-recorded) episode on Monday.Since we have the time, I wanted to take a step back and discuss the ever-evolving reason for this podcast. It's hard to talk about "just" literature right now. But I think it's still worthwhile. We'll go over that and what's coming up next. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands | 12m 18s | ||||||
| 8/29/25 | ![]() For Your Consideration: War Diary by Yevgenia Belorusets & The Time of Doves by Merce Rodoreda | Show Notes:This week, Cameron continues speaking about Yevgenia Belorusets’ work with War Diary and also explores the experience of women living through war in Merce Rodoreda’s The Time of Doves. War Diary catalogues the first 40 days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, capturing the turbulence and violence while never forgetting to focus on the human element. Belorusets’ writing is a powerful call against apathy and a reminder to not forget what is human in man. The Time of Doves follows Natalia, a Catalan woman in a new marriage in the years prior, during and after the Spanish Civil War. Rodoreda’s writing depicts the anxiety of being a woman — subject to an overly-expectant husband, keeping house and kids while earning rent money. The flow-of-consciousness style gives you an intimate look into Natalia’s experiences, sometimes blatantly and sometimes merely hinting at the things in her subconscious. Read the entries of War Diary at https://www.isolarii.com/kyivThe music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Our links: Website | Discord Socials: Instagram | BlueSky | Twitter | FacebookQuestions, comments, want to hear your voice on a bonus episode? Send us an email at slaviclitpod@gmail.com.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands | 1h 10m 52s | ||||||
| 8/22/25 | ![]() A message from Matt | There is no description.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands | 5m 57s | ||||||
| 8/8/25 | ![]() Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets & The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien | Show Notes:This week, Cameron talks about unreliable narrators in Yevgenia Belorusets’ Lucky Breaks and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, posing an unusual argument: what if lying to your reader was a good thing?Belorusets is a Ukrainian writer whose work focuses on the people marginalized by society and takes that eye toward the East, writing stories of women from the Donbas region after war broke out in 2014. Her work brings a light to stories often left untold — and even poses questions about the morality of doing so. Yevgenia Belorusets’ website“The Complaint Against Language” in Wartime Ukraine: A Conversation with Yevgenia Belorusets, interview by Eugene OstashevskyYevgenia Belorusets Focus On Ukraine, Creative Horizons (video, 2024)One Day More — Yevgenia Belorusets’ visit to BrusselsThe music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Our links: Website | Discord Socials: Instagram | BlueSky | Twitter | FacebookQuestions, comments, want to hear your voice on a bonus episode? Send us an email at slaviclitpod@gmail.com.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands | 1h 13m 29s | ||||||
| 7/18/25 | ![]() Alindarka's Children by Alhierd Bacharevič & Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko | This week, in For Your Consideration, Cameron dives into Belarusian writer Alhierd Bacharevič’s Alindarka’s Children and Laguna-Pueblo-American writer Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony. Both novels explore people native to a land that is now, in different ways, hostile to them. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands | 2h 03m 41s | ||||||
| 6/27/25 | ![]() Europe Central by William T. Vollmann & Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami | Show Notes:This week, Cameron dives into William T. Vollmann’s Europe Central and Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood. The uniting theme this week: reflection and memory. Both novels cast a long shadow over his life, so it’s time to untangle exactly why that is. Can Europe Central be cleanly read as a series of parables? Is it appropriate to turn Hitler into a sort-of fairy tale? Is it a red flag that Cameron has read Norwegian Wood six times? Tune in to find your answers. “Shostakovich in Love: William T. Vollmann’s Europe Central” by Peter G. ChristiansenThe music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Our links: Website | Discord Socials: Instagram | BlueSky | Twitter | FacebookQuestions, comments, want to hear your voice on a bonus episode? Send us an email at slaviclitpod@gmail.com.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands | 1h 03m 52s | ||||||
| 6/13/25 | ![]() Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me by Teffi & In The Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien | Show Notes:This week, Cameron dives solo into two books: Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me by Teffi and In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien. He’ll pull apart their authors’ mutual love for taking a creative license to their own lives.Major themes: Emotional truth, social expectations, VietnamThe interview with Tim O’Brien I read from.The documentary on My Lai I mentioned.Seymour Hersh’s article on My Lai The music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Our links: Website | Discord Socials: Instagram | BlueSky | Twitter | FacebookQuestions, comments, want to hear your voice on a bonus episode? Send us an email at slaviclitpod@gmail.com.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands | 1h 49m 44s | ||||||
| 6/6/25 | ![]() The Story of Sonechka by Marina Tsvetaeva (w/ Inessa Fishbeyn and C. D. C. Reeve) | Show Notes:Pick up a copy of The Story of Sonechka here.This week, Cameron dives into Marina Tsvetaeva’s The Story of Sonechka, a recollection of her relationship with the actress Sonia Holliday in Moscow, 1919. The story — one of the clearest examples of queer literature we’ve had on the podcast — reflects not only Marina and Sonia themselves, but also questions on relationships, memory and how we understand each other. Joining him to talk about the novel is Inessa Fishbeyn and C. D. C. Reeve, who translated The Story of Sonechka into English for the first time. Fishbeyn is an independent writer and translator of Russian literature, born and educated in Kazan, Russia. Reeve is DKE Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he specializes in ancient Greek philosophy and has translated many of the works of Plato and Aristotle and written books, commentaries, and essays on them. Major themes: Love Triangles, Queer literature, Knowing the otherThe music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Our links: Website | Discord Socials: Instagram | BlueSky | Twitter | FacebookQuestions, comments, want to hear your voice on a bonus episode? Send us an email at slaviclitpod@gmail.com.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands | 2h 09m 25s | ||||||
| 5/31/25 | ![]() A look forward to June | A quick look forward to our June episodes plus a little apology for the delayed episode this month. If you'd like to join our monthly book club, you can join our discord here. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands | 5m 01s | ||||||
| 5/2/25 | ![]() The Moscoviad by Yuri Andrukhovych (w/ Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky) | Show Notes:This week, Cameron dives into Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych’s The Moscoviad, a picaresque-cum-magical realist novel following the poet Otto von F. as he spends one day trying to accomplish a few chores around Moscow: a visit to a meeting, a reunion with a sort-of girlfriend, and a gift for his friend’s children. This journey takes him to beer halls, into the sewers, into the attention of the KGB and beyond. Set in the very late Soviet Union, Andrukhovych tackles the place of colonized subject in imperial core, the uneasy “friendship of peoples,” and life in a failing empire. Joining him to talk about the novel is Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky. A professor at the University of Kansas, Chernetsky is the author of the book Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization. In addition to The Moscoviad, he has translated into English Yuri Andrukovych’s Twelve Circles, Sophia Andrukovych’s Felix Austria, along with two poetry collections, scholarly articles and historical documents. He is the president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and has previously served as the director of the University of Kansas’ Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the president of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies, and the president of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Major themes: Empire, beer vending machines, subverted machismoThe music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Our links: Website | Discord Socials: Instagram | BlueSky | Twitter | FacebookQuestions, comments, want to hear your voice on a bonus episode? Send us an email at slaviclitpod@gmail.com or call our voicemail at 209.800.3944Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands | 1h 22m 17s | ||||||
| 4/21/25 | ![]() I Live I See by Vsevolod Nekrasov (w/ trans. Bela Shayevich and Dr. Ainsley Morse) | Show Notes:This week, Cameron dives into the poetry of Vsevolod Nekrasov, joined by Bela Shayevich and Ainsley Morse who collected and translated works spanning much of his life in I Live I See: Selected Poems.Born in the USSR in 1934 and writing—mostly unofficially—through the end of his life in 2009 now in the Russian Federation, Vsevolod Nekrasov’s work is largely minimalist and deploys repetition like a musical motif. Some works span pages, while others are no more than a word reflecting itself. His work demands to be read aloud, to a crowd or even just one person. Ainsley Morse is an associate professor in UC San Diego’s department of literature. She’s a scholar of 20th and 21st century literature and culture of the post-war Soviet period, particularly unofficial or “underground” poetry, as well as the avant-garde, children's literature and contemporary poetry. She also translates from Russian, Ukrainian, and Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian. Bela Shayevich is a Soviet American writer and translator. She is best known for her translation of 2015 Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexi-ye-vich’s Secondhand Time, for which she was awarded the TA First Translation Prize. She has also translated Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We. Her writing has appeared in n+1, Jewish Currents, and Harper’s Magazine. She teaches in the Department of Translation at the University of Iowa. Major themes: Repetition, Making words mean something, visual poetry1:36:40 - Elena Kostyuchenko’s I Love Russia 1:37:10 - Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, The Art of Fiction No. 2671:39:40 - Goat Song by Konstantin VaginovThe music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Our links: Website | Discord Socials: Instagram | BlueSky | Twitter | FacebookQuestions, comments, want to hear your voice on a bonus episode? Send us an email at slaviclitpod@gmail.com or call our voicemail at 209.800.3944Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands | 1h 44m 28s | ||||||
| 4/4/25 | ![]() Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov (w/ the author himself) | Show Notes:This week, Cameron ascends into the towering heights of imperial politics in Yaroslav Barsukov’s Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov. The novel follows Shea Ashcroft, an imperial minister whose refusal to gas protesting citizenry has earned him a reassignment to a border region to oversee a fantastical military project. With no one truly on his side and managing strange technologies, Ashcrofts finds himself increasingly out of his depth.Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory includes and expands on Barsukov’s earlier novella Tower of Mud and Straw. It’s been nominated for a Nebula Award and received a Kirkus Reviews star.Joining Cameron to talk about the novel is Yaroslav himself. Born and raised in Moscow and now living in Austria for quite some time, Yaroslav’s background is in physics and software engineering. His writing career stems from game design, in a manner of speaking. He took up his pen around 2014 after quite enjoying the work of translating a game’s mythology for a pitchMajor themes: Suspicions of war, alien technologies, memory10:18 - Barsukov’s interview with the podcast “From the Lighthouse”26:54 - First correction I’ve had to issue in a while — I misremembered the name of the film, which is actually Protozanov’s “Aelita,” not “Anta Odeli Uta,” which is a phrase in the film. The music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Our links: Website | Discord Socials: Instagram | BlueSky | Twitter | FacebookQuestions, comments, want to hear your voice on a bonus episode? Send us an email at slaviclitpod@gmail.com.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands | 1h 24m 28s | ||||||
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