S. Oushakine, A. Golubev, sost., vstup. stat'ia, red.; E. Goncharova, I. Rebrova, podgotovka dokumentov, XX vek: Pis'ma voiny . Moskva, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2016, 840 pages

This is a book about letters rather than a book of letters. It doesn’t so much use letters to tell a story as much as tells the stories of letters. A massive, highly original collection of essays and documents, Pis’ma voiny sets out to define and examine war letters as a genre. A challenging, theory-heavy introduction sets the overall stakes and claims of the project as a whole. Oushakine and Golubev define the twentieth century as the era of the war letter. They note the rise of the genre d...