Archive - Nova Nevédoma

The strange afterlife of books (Nevédomosti №4)

What's going on with "Deleted Scenes...", thoughts on authorship, reviews, words of gratitude.

17 hrs ago •

May 2025

literary sports and misery porn

May 28 •

Life And Poetry Of James Clifford

a story behind the legend

May 21 •

Bewildering Wilderness

on Grand Imperative, drunken quests, proper winter, blizzards, altered consciousness and other things

May 13 •

Rodin's Hands Through Rilke's Eyes

poetry, sculpture, bodies and bodylessness (among other things, or a lack thereof)

May 7 •

On the Evasive Effectiveness of the Literary Novel

a rant on Trü Literature, completely unsolicited

May 2 •

April 2025

An exercise in literary ventriloquism between Chekhov and Tolstoy

Translation of memoirs, letters, diary entries: 99% organic, 1% apocryphal

Apr 29 •

Chekhov's Romantic Escapades

"Chekhov or Checking out?"

Apr 23 •

The Art of Chekhovian Eurotrip

selected Anton Chekhov's letters from Europe, 1891

Apr 16 •

What Dostoevsky and Turgenev promised each other

a literary correspondence between two great writers, 1864-1865

Apr 9 •

Dostoevsky on AI (probably)

literature, time, masturbation, "Crime and Punishment"

Apr 2 •

March 2025

Literature is pure metaphysics

on books, reading, writing, and phenomenology of reading (among other things or a lack thereof)

Mar 29 •

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