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The Magic Soviet Spoon

As told by Dr. Mihaly Mezei, Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, at a seminar at my department. It reminded me of an old joke […] Khruschev and Bulganin, at that time when there was a Soviet Union, were visiting the Queen of England. And so Khruschev notices that Bulganin puts a silv…

Koba by Jean Dufaux and Régis Penet

Koba (2014)

by Jean Dufaux and Régis Penet

Rating: B+

Spoilers! A most odd thing. Can’t find who recommended it to me. It’s only around 70 pages and is a magical realist retelling of Stalin’s ascent to power and his horrible and bloody legacy due to his involvement with a very licentious1 and decently interesting vampire coven2. There’s this Dorian G…