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Action/thrillers
- Review: Child 44 (2016)
- Review: Gorky Park (2016)
- Review: Overkill (2018)
- Review: Patriot (2017)
- Review: The Secret Speech (2017)
- Review: Snowdrops (2016)
B
Blogiversaries/Blirthdays
- Altschmerz, the macrocosmos, and cake: Russia Reviewed turns 6 (2022)
- 5 years of blogging (2021)
- Russia Reviewed hits 3 (2019)
- Russia Reviewed turns 1! (2017)
- Russia Reviewed turns 4 (2020)
- The Terrible Twos (or; I can’t believe it’s been another year!) (2018)
Booklists
Browsing bookstores
- Content of a shelf (2016)
- I collected data on the “Best books about Putin’s Russia.” Here is what I found. (2019)
- Sometimes you find the books and sometimes they find you (2023)
Mikhail Bulgakov
- Matches and mixups: Diaboliad I-IV (2020)
- Things fall apart: Diaboliad IX-XI (2021)
- Why are there so many stairs? Diaboliad VI-VIII (2020)
C
Cliches
- The 7(+3) deadly sins of writing Russia books (2016)
- Even more Russia-writing sins (2017)
- Russia Book Purgatory (or, seven less deadly sins) (2016)
Contemporary fiction
- Composite review: Through the Looking GLAS (2016)
- Review: Freedom is Space for the Spirit (2017)
- Review: Snow in May (2016)
D
Dystopias and antiutopias
- Review: Day of the Oprichnik (2017)
- Review: Metro 2033 (2017)
- Review: The Slynx (2017)
E
End-of-year reflections
- 2023 in review (2023)
- A truncated 2021 in review (2021)
- Naughty and Nice of 2017 (2017)
- Прочитано, 2020 (2020)
- Прочитано, 2021 (2021)
- Прочитано, 2022 (2022)
- Прочитано, 2023 (2023)
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G
H
Horror
I
Insects
International relations
- Review: Post-Imperium (2016)
J
Journalism
- Review: A Russian Diary (2016)
- Review: Empire of Corruption (2017)
- Review: Other Russias (2018)
- Review: Russia: Putin’s Playground (2016)
- Review: Russophobia (2016)
- Review: Words Will Break Cement (2016)
K
L
Language learning
- B2 by 2020! (2016)
- B2 by 2020? Yes, B2 by 2020. (2020)
- Дневник попугая: Dispatches from IU’s Summer Language Workshop. Week 1: 3-9 June, 2019 (2019)
- Review: The Russian Word’s Worth (2016)
- ТРКИ-IV: Вместо репоста (2021)
- We’ve arrived… (2022)
M
Memoirs
- Review: First Person (От первого лица) (2016)
- Review: The Hawks of Peace (2018)
- Review: Lenin Lives Next Door (2016)
N
Natural School
- Petersburg, realism, and the other social distancing, pt. I: Into the weeds with the Natural School (2023)
- Petersburg, realism, and the other social distancing, pt. II: The naturalist’s eye (2023)
- Petersburg, realism, and the other social distancing, pt. III: Comments from the sidelines (2023)
- Petersburg, realism, and the other social distancing, pt. IV: “And you and you!” (2023)
- Petersburg, realism, and the other social distancing, pt. V: Wrapping things up (2023)
Navy
- What submarine dreams I had! (2023)
New Year
- Russia Reviewed in 2017, pt. I of II (2017)
- Russia Reviewed in 2017, pt. II of II (2017)
- Russia Reviewed in 2018, pt. I of II (2018)
- Russia Reviewed in 2018, pt. II of II (2018)
- Russia Reviewed in 2019, pt. I of II (2019)
- Russia Reviewed in 2019, pt. II of II (2019)
O
Organized crime
- Review: Gangs of Russia (2018)
- Review: Thief in Law (2017)
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Victor Pelevin
- The Life of Insects (Жизнь насекомых): Still chirpworthy after all these years (2023)
- Review: The Yellow Arrow (2016)
- Thoughts on Omon Ra (2016)
- Quick thoughts: Buddha’s Little Finger and Pineapple Water for the Lovely Lady (2016)
Philosophy
- How should Russia’s garden grow? Paul Robinson’s Russian Conservatism (100th review, 400th post) (2021)
Political satire
- Review: Fardwor, Russia (2016)
Vladimir Putin
- Hamartography, now with more pics (2021)
- Late to the party: Thoughts on “The Putin Interviews”, part I (2017)
- Late to the party: Thoughts on “The Putin Interviews”, part II (2017)
- Late to the party: Thoughts on “The Putin Interviews”, part III (2017)
- Late to the party: Thoughts on “The Putin Interviews”, part IV (2017)
- Review: I, Putin (2016)
- Review: Putin: His Downfall and Russia’s Coming Crash (2017)
Q
Quick thoughts
- It’s no good (2016)
- Notes from Concourse B (2019)
R
Reactions
- It took two pages. TWO PAGES. (2016)
- Oh, Goodreads (2016)
- Russia Travelogue Bingo (2020)
Real Talk
- Book fatigue? (2017)
- Can you trust Russia Reviewed? (2019)
- I’m retiring that flawed blog concept from March 2022 (2023)
- Post-russophile (2023)
- My name is J.T., and I’m dealing with burnout. (2019)
- Return to “Russophile,” or, Can a blogger reinvent themselves? (2018)
- So you’re a Russophile, right J.T.? (2016)
- Speech from the niche: Lessons from 3 1/2 years of anonymous book-blogging (2019)
- Where does Double-R go from here? Some thoughts, some housekeeping, and an open thread (2022)
- Why I don’t do Russia analysis (2016)
- You can’t just cry “Russian influence!” and leave the room (2023)
Russia in Comics
- And the prize in What-the-Hellery goes to… (2019)
- Back in Black (2023)
- Dual Review: Black Widow: The Name of the Rose and Black Widow: A Finely Woven Thread (2018)
- Golosseum: Rematch! (2023)
- It began in the basement: Akishin’s Cuckoo! (2023)
- Moving to Gorelovo (2018)
- Petrograd commentary (2018)
- Review: Cat (Кот) (2018)
- Review: Codename Baboushka: The Conclave of Death (2018)
- Review: The Hunting Party (2018)
- Review: Moscow (2017)
- Review: Mother Russia (2018)
- Review: Pionerskaya Pravda (2018)
- Review: Rasputin: The Road to the Winter Palace (2018)
- Review: Red Star: The Battle of Kar Dathra’s Gate (2018)
- Review: Russians on the Moon! (2018)
- Review: Siberia (2018)
Russian domestic politics
- Review: Fragile Empire (2016)
- Review: Putin’s New Russia (2016)
- Review: Understanding Russian Politics (2016)
- Some grime off the lens (2018)
Russian foreign policy
Russian & Soviet history
- “But I digress…yet again” : Robert Alexander’s The Kitchen Boy (2018)
- Club Red (2021)
- Review: From Peasant to Petersburger (2020)
- Review: Have Personality Disorder, Will Rule Russia (2017)
- Review: Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream (2016)
- Review: Russia: What Everyone Needs to Know (2017)
S
Sketches
- Kinda liked: Tesli’s Для солдат и рабочих [For Soldiers and Workers] (2023)
- Notes on Roman Senchin’s “Tuva” (2018)
- Review: My Fellow Prisoners (2016)
Spies
- Review: The Good Spy (2017)
- Review: Red Sparrow (2018)
- Review: Revenge of the Kremlin (2017)
T
Technology
Travelogues
- A brief, crooked ride down the Spine of Russia (2019)
- *Drops mic* (2019)
- Getting around in twenty towns: Dmitry Danilov’s travelogue Dvadtsat’ gorodov (2021)
- Review: Lost and Found in Russia (2016)
- Review: One Steppe Beyond (2016)
- Review: Where Bears Roam the Streets (2016)
U
V
Variety shows
- A comprehensive list of Russia blogs, alive and dead (2021)
- Is it spring yet? (2024)
- The Kremlin Ball and other December diversions (2019)
- Product review: The Russia Box (A CrateJoy Affiliate) (2020)
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