Boris Fishman

White on Black

In 1968, Ignacio Gallego, the patriarch of the Spanish Community Party, severed ties with a willful daughter, who had just given birth to a toddler with cerebral palsy in Moscow. The Kremlin covered for Gallego’s callousness and informed his daughter…

An Interview with Wladimir Kaminer

Boris Fishman interviewed Wladimir Kaminer September 3, 2003. Translated by Boris Fishman.

Boris Fishman: Did you start writing before emigrating to Germany? What did you do in the Soviet Union?

Wladimir Kaminer: In the Soviet Union, I graduated from music school, with…