Teffi: Wit, Exile, and the Art of Survival

There are writers who chronicle history from the center of power, and there are writers who record it from the margins, turning displacement itself into a vantage point. Teffi, born Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya in 1872, belonged firmly to the latter. Known in her lifetime as a humorist, satirist, and chronicler of Russian émigré life, she hasContinue reading “Teffi: Wit, Exile, and the Art of Survival”