Antonina W. Bouis

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Called “one of the best translators at work today” (2016) by the Wall Street Journal, Antonina W. Bouis has translated more than ninety books, including Sergei Lebedev’s Oblivion (one of WSJ’s ten best books of the year), The Year of the Comet, The Goose Fritz (“brilliantly translated,” Financial Times), Untraceable, A Present Past, and The Lady of the Mine (2025). She lives in New York.

Misfire
By Sergei Lebedev
July 2025
Sergei Lebedev
Photo by ElenaMasiutkina / Stock.adobe.com A Russian police officer tracks the surprising release of a prisoner to fight in the war against Ukraine. Recalling the prisoner’s capture, the office…
The Year of the Comet by Sergei Lebedev
By Sergei Lebedev

Sergei Lebedev
New York. New Vessel Press. 2017. 245 pages.In his second novel, Sergei Lebedev explores the thrills and failures of the late Soviet Union through the eyes of a young boy. Both a coming-of-age story a…
Hard to Be a God and Definitely Maybe: A Manuscript Discovered under Strange Circumstances
By Arkady Strugatsky , By Boris Strugatsky

Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky. Hard to Be a God. Olena Bormashenko, tr. Hari Kunzru, intro. Chicago. Chicago Review Press. 2014. ISBN 9781613748282———. Definitely Maybe: A…