Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Yulia Yakovleva
Tripoli, 1911 - Words Without Borders
Aisha Ibrahim’s novel Box of Sand is a work of historical fiction set during the Italian invasion of Libya in 1911. The plot follows an Italian journalist, freshly graduated, who is conscripted into the army and sent to war in Libya, where he falls in love with a milk seller from Tripoli. But after her mother is killed, she and her brother are arrested and sent to the Italian penal colonies.
Abusive Motherland
The only thing I can understand of what she’s saying is my own name: “Anya . . . Anya . . . Anya.” It darts like a fish in a stream of speech, wild and untamed like Lermontov’s poems about the Caucasus mountains. I’m obviously guilty of something, but what? “Sorry,” I cut in as she pauses for breath before resuming her tirade. “I’m sorry, but could you possibly speak in English?” She seems to choke on what she was about to say as she switches from one language to the other.
Pierre Assouline, Ioulia Iakovleva and Quentin Ebrard: books not to be missed
the swimmer, pby Pierre Assouline, Gallimard, 260 p., €20. The rating of L’Express: 4/5 No doubt, our columnist is like a fish in water with this literary account of Alfred Nakache (1915-1983), prodigious and generous swimming champion whose life was nothing like a long calm river. Yes, it was obvious for Pierre Assouline.
What Russia’s children think about the war in Ukraine - Index on Censorship
Unlike English, the Russian language has no use for articles, definite or indefinite. Instead, there is a mutual understanding applied to a particular conversation: the interlocutors simply understand whether they talk about a dog or a house in general, or this exact dog and this exact house. This certainty appears to be just hanging in the air. The same goes for the war. In the past, the word ‘war’ would inevitably entail the certainty of the 1941–45 war.
10 New Books to Read in November
This month's new releases include a thriller set in 1930s Leningrad, an inside look at the Lego empire, and a memoir about food and body image. Whether we’re reading to escape the world or to better understand it, listening in the car or lounging on the couch with a paperback, this month (and every month!) we’re thankful for books. And thankfully, November has some great new releases. Put these on your reading list. The following information is provided courtesy of the Arlington Public Library.
Ukraine Stories: Les enfants russes, une future génération d’Antigones
Ce texte est issu du projet «Ukraine Stories» lancé par le partenaire anglophone du «Temps» Geneva Solutions, qui traite de la Genève internationale. Il s’agit de soutenir et de publier le travail de dizaines de journalistes ukrainiens et russes qui ont perdu leur poste ou leur média mais pas leur savoir-faire. Une campagne de financement participatif a permis de couvrir les deux premiers mois du projet.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Yulia
Contact Yulia, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack