Julie Masis is the editor and publisher of the Russian Boston Gazette, a newspaper for Russian-speaking immigrants in Boston. She is…

Albert Cossery / Courtesy of New Directions The end of June marked the anniversary of the death of Albert Cossery (1913–2008), a French-speaking…

Photo by Joe Abriatis Claire Jia’s debut novel, Wanting, was published by Tin House on July 1. It tells the story of a rejuvenated…

Photo by zea / Adobe Stock About the NovelThis is a story of dispossession and a man who wrestled with God: sometimes dispossession…

 The burgeoning shoegaze movement in the United Kingdom and Ireland of the late 1980s caught the world by surprise; at the height of grunge’s…