Andrei Navrozov

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Andrei Navrozov is a poet and writer. He was born in Moscow in 1956. He is the grandson of the playwright Andrei Navrozov and son of the essayist and translator, Lev Navrozov. He live in Palermo.


Cultural Caviar

Kierkegaard on the Catwalk

Kierkegaard on the Catwalk

A prosperous, roly-poly Greek with a name that sounds like an Aztec root vegetable once

Architecture

The Venice Biennale Gone Evil

The Venice Biennale Gone Evil

Avant-garde is an epidemic.  From modern architecture—an added misfortune, like a

Dying Hyenas in Regent’s Park

Dying Hyenas in Regent’s Park

A pair of Siamese twins in formaldehyde, provided the liquid was a shocking pink and the

New Russian Roulette

New Russian Roulette

In the 1930s even some of the older and more intellectual Russians, including those who

A Hack’s Catechism

A Hack’s Catechism

Anybody who has ever made merry by leafing through an issue of Cosmopolitan knows that

The Last Time I Saw Paris

Even in some of my saner moments, however, I can detect within myself a tendency of

The Right to Shirk

Stalin, who espoused the profound rationalism of a Constitution that made socially useful

What the Loser Wins

I am not saying that we must all turn to Eastern mysticism, or try walking on water after