“Island” is a new literary object: a Russian-language print periodical originating from Venice. “Island” positions itself as an émigré project, while intending to rethink the “tamizdat” vs. “here-published” dichotomy by collaborating with authors both in emigration and those who “continue to remain” in Russia. From “Island” it is convenient to observe many things at once—literal and imagined spaces, the habitats of languages, maps of movement, and the traffic of ships. “Island” will not be a refuge for the purely literary alone: the journal plans to publish criticism, essays, and theory as well. “Island” will also have an online version and a supplement—a print newspaper.
A multilingual web archive of minimalist poetry, created by Vladimir Koshelev. The archive’s curator argues that minimalist poetry is “a self-sufficient way of making sense of reality in all its manifestations—from the least obvious, non-human ones to those of catastrophic scale.” Materials on PLUS MINUS are published in the original language and in translations into other languages. PLUS MINUS also publishes a book series under the same name.