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My Only Crime

Richard Lourie

Poems, Translations, Lives, and Anna Akhmatova's "Requiem"​

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My Only Crime: Poems, Translations, Lives, and Anna Akhmatova's "Requiem" is first book of poetry by Richard Lourie, author of The Autobiography Of Joseph Stalin, Zero Gravity, First Loyalty, A Hatred For Tulips, Sakharov: A Biography, Putin: His Downfall And Russia's Coming Crash, Hunting The Devil (a true-crime account of a Russian serial killer) and Russia Speaks: An Oral History From The Revolution To The Present. It is the eighth book from Poets & Traitors Press, founded in 2017 by Val Vinokur to publish books by poet-translators.

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RICHARD LOURIE is the critically acclaimed author of both fiction and nonfiction, including The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin and Sakharov: A Biography. He has translated more than thirty books and served as Mikhail Gorbachev's translator for The New York Times. His articles and reviews have appeared in many influential publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New Republic, and The Nation. He has also served as a consultant on Russia to Hillary Clinton during her 2008 presidential run.

Publication date: October 16, 2024

ISBN: 9780999073773

Price: $16

PRAISE

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“…the best narrative available on Sakharov’s life.” 

—Financial Times on Sakharov: A Life

 

“Lourie is located somewhere between James Bond and Heidegger…” 

—Saul Bellow on First Loyalty

 

“Excellent! A New Kind of book.” 

—Czeslaw Milosz on Russia Speaks: An Oral History from the Revolution to the Present.

 

“He writes well enough not only to make the heart pound but also to please the mind.” 

—The New Yorker on First Loyalty

 

“In what might be his own heartless words, Stalin here tells the spellbinding story of his rise to power.” 

—James Salter on The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin

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