Tag Svetlana Alexievich

More notes on Alexievich

It’s not easy to get strangers to tell you things they wouldn’t tell their children and grandchildren. Some people open up to perfect strangers easily, but talking to a journalist means that one’s confession could make it to print, if anonymously. Some of…

Briefly on Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich has been a major presence in Soviet and post-Soviet letters since 1984, when a censored version of War’s Face Is Not Female was first published. She has authored six documentary books: two on WWII, one on the Soviet…