Elina Alter

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Elina Alter is a writer and translator. Her translations include Alla Gorbunova’s It’s the End of the World, My Love and Oksana Vasyakina’s Wound. She lives in New York.

Wound by Oksana Vasyakina
By Oksana Vasyakina

Oksana Vasyakina
New York. Catapult. 2023. 240 pages. This autobiographical Russian novel received the NOS Prize in 2021. The wounds referred to in the title are several—her mother’s breast removed…
“mama is laughing haha . . .”
By Egana Dzhabbarova
March 2023
Egana Dzhabbarova
Linor Goralik, Trinity in Bucha (2022), black cardboard, gold, white, and red paper, black watercolor, black thread, bandage, red acrylic, pen / Courtesy of the artist / linorgoralik.com…
Адыгэм я лъэпкъгъэкlуэд
By Ramil Niyazov-Adyljan
March 2023
Ramil Niyazov-Adyljan
a serbian migrant worker steps out into the white like the mediterranean sea like the bitter turkish tobacco-covered russian earth where no one of his yet lies like the white tsar’s ya…