Writing in ... Russia

       At Russia Behind the Headlines Asia Pacific Alena Tveritina writes about New genres in post-Soviet Russian literature, finding:

the Russian literature of the 21st century has its own important agenda to pursue: it digests an entire epoch; it paints pictures of a new society and people that build and inhabit it; it tickles the readers' nerve and shock-therapies them with post-apocalyptic visions. It also seeks relevant forms and discovers numerous new talents.

       I suppose we should be glad "the concept of an Orthodox Christian bestseller" has not caught on in translation yet (though I think there's some potential here, if they combine it with that: "demi-fantastic genre" ...).
       Quite a few of the authors and books mentioned here are under review at the complete review; see the Index of Eastern European Literature.