Introduction

Artwork by

• Diary

  Saida Zunnunova translated from Uzbek by Donohon Abdugafurova

• Childhood

  Chinghiz Aitmatov translated from Russian by Dan Szetela

• Three Poems

  Janga Todosh Bedyurov translated from Altai by Elena Koroleva

• A Song to the Blue Sky of Asia

  Brontoy Bedyurov translated from Russian by Elena Koroleva

• Downfall in Four Blades—A Primer

  Marko Pogačar translated from Croatian by Mirza Purić

• selections from Voronezh Notebooks

  Osip Mandelstam translated from Russian by John High and Matvei Yankelevich

• The Tale of Red-Haired Motele, Mister Inspector, Rabbi Isaiah, and Commissar Blokh

  Iosif Pavlovich Utkin translated from Russian by Katherine E. Young

• something extra: The Mistle Thrush

  Suhbat Aflatuni translated from Russian by the editors of Turkoslavia