Links:

    -WIKIPEDIA: Victor Pelevin
    -PROFILE: The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay: Victor Pelevin made his name in 90s Russia with scathing satires of authoritarianism. But while his literary peers have faced censorship and fled the country, he still sells millions. Has he become a Kremlin apologist? (Sophie Pinkham, 1/07/25, The Guardian)
   -REVIEW: of Life of Insects (Leah Cutter, Strange Horizons)