Anyone familiar with literary devices employed by writers to propel narratives forward must at one point or another have come across one such famous device known as “Chekhov’s gun.” Named after the famed Russian writer and playwright Anton Chekhov, who first theorized about the device in a letter to fellow Russian belletrist Aleksandr Lazarev, the […]

“People ask me: “Why don’t you take photos in color? In color!” But Chernobyl: literally it means black event. There are no other colors there.”― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster The front page of the inaugurating issue of Tribuna Energetika (Energy Worker’s Tribune), announcing the publication of the […]