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Zombies, exiles and monsters

Start the Week

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The Emigration of the Russians

There's no great novel of the emigration. The only writers who really succeeded were the ones who were simulated, who learned French and even wrote in French. Helen Rappaport after the Romanov's Russian exiles in Paris between the wars. George Saunders on his new collection of short stories, Liberation Days Out Now.

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