Features the work of seven Soviet and seven American writers.
Content Note
Introduction / Robert Atwan -- Introduction / Valeri Vinokurov -- In search of a new American past / Geoffrey C. Ward -- Discovering our past / Yuri Nagibin -- The American geographies / Barry Lopez -- Live forever, Vivi River / Viktor Astafyev -- Art in America / Eleanor Munro -- Monologues for my son / Viktor Potanin -- American literary culture : a personal perspective / Joyce Carol Oates -- We live and remember / Aleksandr Mulyarchik -- Technology in America / Elting E. Morison -- The apple of knowledge / Alla Melik-Pashaeva -- House of Ruth, house of Robinson : some observations on baseball, biography, and the American myth / Gerald Early -- Running for the turtle / Teymuraz Mamaladze -- Living souls / Scott Russell Sanders -- And in all our works / Valeri Vinokurov.