Shattered Ice by Victor Mogilat (via Pexels) Snow It snowed all winter, sometimes lightly, but mostly heavily, with dry biting flakes, and every day by morning, all the roads were covered. Vera was heading back to Moscow from St. Petersburg on the train. Not moving, she stared out the window at the unpeopled space, […]
Andrew Wachtel
ANDREW WACHTEL has served as rector of Narxoz University in Almaty, Kazakhstan and President of the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Before coming to Central Asia in 2010, he was dean of The Graduate School and director of the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, his interests range from Russian literature and culture to East European and Balkan culture, history and politics to contemporary Central Asia. He translates from Russian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Slovene. His translation of of Anzhelina Polonskaya's "Paul Klee’s Boat", was short-listed for the 2014 PEN Poetry Translation Prize.
