224 Episodes

  1. Earth (1930) directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko

    Published: 12/5/2025

  2. Not Russian by Mikhail Shevelev (w/ Ally Pitts, host of A Russian & Soviet Movie Podcast)

    Published: 11/21/2025

  3. Chevengur, chapters 1-25, by Andrei Platonov

    Published: 10/27/2025

  4. The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman

    Published: 9/26/2025

  5. Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky and Delicious Hunger by Hai Fan

    Published: 9/16/2025

  6. An update, a reason to podcast, a look through October

    Published: 9/12/2025

  7. For Your Consideration: War Diary by Yevgenia Belorusets & The Time of Doves by Merce Rodoreda

    Published: 8/29/2025

  8. A message from Matt

    Published: 8/22/2025

  9. Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets & The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

    Published: 8/8/2025

  10. Alindarka's Children by Alhierd Bacharevič & Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

    Published: 7/18/2025

  11. Europe Central by William T. Vollmann & Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

    Published: 6/27/2025

  12. Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me by Teffi & In The Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien

    Published: 6/13/2025

  13. The Story of Sonechka by Marina Tsvetaeva (w/ Inessa Fishbeyn and C. D. C. Reeve)

    Published: 6/6/2025

  14. A look forward to June

    Published: 5/31/2025

  15. The Moscoviad by Yuri Andrukhovych (w/ Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky)

    Published: 5/2/2025

  16. I Live I See by Vsevolod Nekrasov (w/ trans. Bela Shayevich and Dr. Ainsley Morse)

    Published: 4/21/2025

  17. Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov (w/ the author himself)

    Published: 4/4/2025

  18. Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy (w/ Dr. Tatyana Gershkovich)

    Published: 3/21/2025

  19. To Hell with Poets by Baqytgul Sarmekova (w/ translator Mirgul Kali)

    Published: 3/6/2025

  20. I Burned at the Feast by Arseny Tarkovsky (w/ translators Philip J. Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev)

    Published: 2/21/2025

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The Slavic Literature Pod is your guide to the literary traditions in and around the Slavic world. On each episode, Cameron Lallana sits down with scholars, translators and other experts to dive deep into big books, short stories, film, and everything in between. You’ll get an approachable introduction to the scholarship and big ideas surrounding these canons roughly two Fridays per month.