In The Picture: Daragh Muldowney's Beacons Photographer Daragh Muldowney has been travelling to Lake Baikal, Siberia, the largest freshwater lake on the planet, for the past three years, compiling work for … visual arts • 22 Feb 21
Where do I begin? RTÉ Arena on the work of Anton Chekhov For RTÉ Arena, Helen Meany explores the life and work of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov... RTÉ Arena • 05 Feb 21
Reviewed: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov Six longer short stories, as it were, almost novellas, are the matter in hand from the pen of the Russian writer Nikolai Leskov (1831-1895) whose … Books • 13 Nov 20
Reviewed: Shalamov's Sketches of the Criminal World "Shalamov's experience in the camps was longer and more bitter than my own, " declared Aleksander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) of his compatriot, Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982) who … Books • 22 Jan 20
