“Not since Alexander Solzhenitsyn has Russia had a writer as obsessed as Sergei Lebedev with that country’s history or the traces it has left on the collective consciousness … Lebedev is arguably the best of Russia’s younger generation of writers.”
The New York Review of Books
New York Magazine has published their Approval Matrix for the week of 4/19. Yitzhak Gormezano Goren’s novel Alexandrian Summer occupies the top (right) spot.
It is both highbrow and brilliant. Officially.
http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/approval-matrix-2015-4-20/
