chernobyl

Some books can find themselves sitting on shelves for years, waiting to be opened and read. Many books end up sitting on shelves and never moving at all, never picked up or read, only jostled about as other books around them are moved. Some books though do eventually get picked up and read, even if they are not exactly enjoyable books. Sometimes, these books are more harrowing than anything else. Voices from Chernobyl is one such book. Put together by Svetlana Alexievich and translated by Keith Gessen, you can tell from the very start that there is little joy to… [Continue Reading]