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That’s real poet’s prose — “the quiet craziness of the old ladies’ glasses, crisscrossed by telegraph cables and a few birds” — and I...

The Naked World is an extraordinary reflection on the impact of history and culture(s) on individuals in a family across generations, and...

This gorgeous ambitious text<..> settles us—and unsettles us—behind the eyes of a poet, a poet whose eyes are pierced by brilliant images...

Irina Mashinski’s The Naked World <..> is an impressive achievement in the hybrid genre. <It> illuminates not only the author’s past...

Part poetry, part flash fiction; part memoir, part imagination; part history, part fantasy. The Naked World is like a dream, images, and...

Mashinski's memoir is magical.

Luminous prose and poetry. <..> This is poetic prose at its best.

[Irina Mashinski] breaks free from the constraints of time and conceptual logic, creating polyphonic worlds of imagery that are both...

This longing to capture the world in language and in memory; this desire to hold the moment and make it indestructible—these animate The...

Mashinski relaxes and luxuriates in her understanding of human nature – precisely what Soviet Communism sought to manipulate and...

Like everything Irina Mashinski writes, The Naked World is exhilaratingly original

Mashinski seeks liberating oblivion in a space that neither cares about nor notices her presence. The “A-merica” of Mashinski’s...

It’s a work which gets under the skin, leaving images lodged in the brain of forests and patterned wallpaper and wastelands and sunsets...

..This tale <..> is a harrowing and cautionary primer in how the legacy of government-sanctioned tragedy is created and persists..<..>...