It's All About Russiya: the NYT.

      Our venerable house organ,nytimes.com, provided its readers with a timely Sunday Supplement in the Book Review.  All the reviews were of Russiya topics and literary examples.  Of course, this effort coincides with the West's current  focus on things Russky and things Putinski.  Oh, soooo timely.   Most Amerikansky are unfamiliar with classic Russky authors from the 18th and 19th centuries, but enough are familiar to influence generations of readers and writers(not to mention film producers).
    This extensive national publishing effort requires some review effort by the Mayor himself.   Long a student of classical literature(Greek/Roman), the Mayor acknowledges the  Russkies are a branch of the ancients, thus deserving of this review.
     Because of the length and breadth, I will include highlights and direct readers to go to nytimes.com to read the supplement in  its entirety.   It is definitely worth a visit.
  First the list:(in order)
1.  There Once was a Mother Who Loved Children, Until They Moved Back In, by
    Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
2. Twilight of the Eastern Gods
    Ismail Kadare
3. The Shortlist-Short Stories
    Benjamin Nugent
Nonfiction
4. STALIN: Vol.1:Paradoxes of Power,1878-1928
    Stephen Kotkin
5. Liminov
    Emmanuel Carrere
6. Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: ThE Surreal Heart of the New Russiya
    Peter Pomerantsev
7. Putin's Kleptocracy:Who Owns Russiya?
    Karen Dawisha
8. Leningrad: Siege and Symphony
     Bryan Moynahan
9. Tolstoy's False Disciple: The Untold Story of Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Chertkov
    Alexandra Popoff
10. The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold war Washington
     Gregg Herkin
11. George Marshall: A Biography
     Debi and Irwin Unger w/  Stanley Hirshon
12.  Nothing But The Clouds Unchanged: Artists in World war I
     Gordon Hughes and Philipp Blom, eds.
    This list does not include all the articles included in the supplement.  Many featured articles were written by contemporary authors and critics.
More later.