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In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him - and his pension - alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life - and the means and meaning of their own lives - by creating a world that...

People rule here. They define the laws of life and death. They can kill animals to eat them. They can excoriate them, play with their suffering, modify their bodies—simultaneously claiming that they are intelligent and emphatic beings. The Animals Spoke Up consists of four stories with animals as the protagonists. The toro bravo bulls, since birth preparing to fight at the corrida de toros. Together...