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A literary cult figure on a par with Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel has remained an enigma ever since he disappeared, along with his archive, inside Stalin's secret p

Hailed as the first great Soviet writer, Isaac Babel was at once a product and a victim of violent revolution. In tales of Cossack marauders and flashy Odessa g

Isaac Babel: The Essential Fictions is a collection of seventy-two of Isaac Babel's finest short stories and includes Red Cavalry, Odessa Stories, and the "Dove

For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the indispensable b

Roaming from Tashkent to San Francisco, this is the true story of one budding writer's strange encounters with the fanatics who are devoted - absurdly! melancho