The Muscovite’s work is arriving in English this year in three books of remarkable memoir, poems and essays that, she explains, reach for ‘the truth of the past’ Years ago, Maria Stepanova visited the ...

The Russian poet’s eloquent writing is caught between a pursuit of the past and the meaninglessness of memorialising Translated poetry seldom finds its way into this column. It is too high risk: there ...

This week, guest host Marc Filippino discusses the FT's war coverage in Ukraine with our Editor, Roula Khalaf. How does a news organisation make decisions during wartime? Then Marc talks with Maria ...

It’s a rare thing that a Russian book is shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. So what’s so special about this novel? There were only two times before that a Russian writer was nominated for ...

Among the most acclaimed contemporary Russian-language writers, Maria Stepanova has won the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding — but not without controversy. Maria Stepanova, a powerful ...

To fashion a work of art from the material of war is to risk exploiting, or even ennobling, the horrors that are depicted; but to say nothing about those horrors can seem like defeatism—or worse, ...

Maria Stepanova played for the Phoenix Mercury in their early years, as they drafted her in the 1998 WNBA Draft. She was the eighth pick of that year's draft, and the Mercury drafted three other ...

This week, guest host Marc Filippino discusses the FT's war coverage in Ukraine with our Editor, Roula Khalaf. How does a news organisation make decisions during wartime? Then Marc talks with Maria ...