This book examines the staggering popularity of early-twentieth-century Russian detective serials. Traditionally maligned as Pinkertonovshchina, these appropriations of American and British detective stories featuring Nat Pinkerton, Nick Carter, Sherlock Holmes, Ethel King, and scores of other sleuths swept the Russian reading market in successive waves between 1907 and 1917, and famously experienced a red resurgence in the 1920s under the aegis of Nikolai Bukharin. The book presents the first holistic view of Pinkertonovshchina as a phenomenon, and produces a working model of cross-cultural appropriation and reception. The red Pinkerton emerges as a vital missing link between pre- and post-Revolutionary popular literature, and marks the fitful start of a decades-long negotiation between the regime, the author, and the reading masses.

Cardinal Points Literary Journal. The Literary Journal of the Slavic Studies Department, Brown University. Volume 9. Issue editor: Boris Dralyuk. Editors: Boris Dralyuk, Irina Mashinski, Robert Chandler. New York: StoSvet Press, 2018 www.StoSvet.net. Founding director of the Cardinal Points/StoSvet Literary Project : Oleg Woolf (1954-2011) Editor-in-chief: Irina Mashinski.In this issue: Prose by Artyom Vesyoly, Yuri Nagibin; essays by D.S. LIkhachev, Alexander Nakhimovsky, Tatyana Apraksina; poetry by Osip Mandelstam, Anna Prismanova, Genrikh Sapgir, Taras Shevchenko, Tatyana Apraksina, Alexander Gorodnitsky, as well as a personal anthology of contemporary Russian poetry selected and translated by Philip Nikolayev; essay on the art of translation by Edythe Haber, Peter France, and more.