Masodov is one of the best Russian writers today, although not everyone will like his harsh pedophilic gothic with a revolutionary-esoteric slant. Platonov, ...

Ilya Masodov’s novel “The Sweetness of Your Tender Lips” is a tragedy of ruined youth and hatred of life. Love with death and a chronicle of the great strugg...

Eleven-year-old Klava Oreshnikova was destined for a special fate: to go through the horrors of the civil war to her only, great Love, a simple village girl ...

Masodov’s prose cannot be called “scary,” because it is on the other side of fear. It opens the spaces of Ritual, the only possible Ritual - Death. Just as D...