Elaine Blair

Elaine Blair is the author of Literary St. Petersburg. Her writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, n+1 and other publications.

Currently

  • Evicted From His Own Head

    November 11, 2009

    In the stories of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, the landscape of the Russian revolution is hostile territory, and terrifying in its scope.

  • The Wait

    March 25, 2009

    In The Queue, Vladimir Sorokin offers a biting and hilarious portrait of a central ritual of Soviet life.

2008

  • The Horror of Dirt

    October 29, 2008

    Upstairs and downstairs with Virginia, Vanessa and the Bloomsbury set.

  • Tight Corners

    May 22, 2008 Subscribe

    When Richard Price moves from the urban ruins of New Jersey to the gentrified Lower East Side of Lush Life, things get complicated.

2002

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Blogs

» The Beat

Reagan Would Fail "Purity Test" Proposed for GOP | RNC right-wingers say their ideological correctness standard for candidates is rooted in Reaganism. But the former president would flunk.
John Nichols
22 Comments
Posted at 1:19 PM ET

» The Dreyfuss Report

A Kingdom of Bicycles No Longer | China's ambassador for climate change speaks on the eve of the Copenhagen summit meeting.
Robert Dreyfuss
27 Comments
Posted at 9:18 ET

» Act Now!

Coal Country | "This is a civil war."
Peter Rothberg
82 Comments

» The Notion

A Blow to Privatization in Israel (and Perhaps Beyond) | A potentially historic ruling on prison privatization, in Israel.
Eyal Press
29 Comments

» Editor's Cut

Around the Nation | The week we went Rouge. Plus, Moyers on Afghanistan.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
106 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman