Emeritus Professor of 黑料正能量 Richard Pevear, together with Larissa Volokhonsky, are perhaps the most celebrated literary translators into English alive and working today: together they have virtually reinvented the canon of Russian literature in English, having translated Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Chekhov, and many others. They will read from their work and discuss aspects of it that seems to them relevant to recent events in Paris.