Lev Bratishenko

Owen Hatherley’s book on why we keep calm and carry on with our fake, troubling nostalgia

Sergei Lebedev’s debut novel deploys surrealism and poetry as he ventures into the Gulag, seeking answers

Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry stunning musical piece made from ocean wave patterns gets its North American debut

The Maisky Diaries provides a rare glimpse into Stalin’s Soviet Union

The Gates Foundation and its ‘philanthrocapitalists’ should worry us

Book review: A history of illogical yet out-of-control engineering, from the Superconducting Super Collider to the Zeppelin

If we can have opera as funny and contemporary as ’A Little Too Cozy’—’Cosi fan tutti,’ get it?—who needs Mozart at all?

Book review: Bright Eyed: Insomnia and its cultures

David Graeber’s dense analysis is inspiring and full of surprising facts

Actually, Atlantis has been found several times, but you can’t say that if you’re writing a book about looking for it.