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The Stuff of Life

The musings of Valentin Kurbatov, a literary critic from Pskov, on books he has read in the past year spill over into a tightly focused, self-contained piece on contemporary literature and contemporary readers, on life ("a greedy now and a vague tomorrow") and the yearning to feel the earth firm beneath one's feet.