Welcome to Litsy!

Polina Barskova is primarily a poet and scholar, so it's no surprise that this - her first foray into prose - combines florid language, history, and memoir to create a series of vignettes about life during the siege of Leningrad, an event whose echoes still dominate the now-St. Petersburg she grew up in. Like all collections of shorts, some worked better than others. Barskova's an excellent writer, though, and I'd love to read her academic work.