LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

The following list consists of two sections: BOOKS (38 items) and ARTICLES (468 items), the latter comprising two areas: linguistics — Russian, Somali, and general (44 articles) and literature — scholarly articles and critical essays (387 items) and memoiristic and other creative writing (38 items: №№ 139, 154, 185, 189, 196, 205, 208-211, 215, 252, 273, 286, 293, 296, 298, 303, 309, 310, 323, 331, 335, 339, 342, 347, 350, 356, 359, 365, 370, 372, 374, 387, 394, 402, 406, 416).

1. BOOKS

  1. Sintaksis somali. Glubinnye i poverkhnostnye struktury [Somali syntax. Deep and surface structures]. Moscow: Nauka, 1971; PDF-version; Second ed. – Moscow: LKI, 2007. 272 pp. Pirate English translation by Emery W. Tetrault. PDF-version of the translation.
  2. Matematika i iskusstvo (poetika vyrazitel’nosti) [Mathematics and art: A poetics of expressiveness; co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. Moscow: Znanie, 1976. 65 pp. Engl. version in No. 8.
  3. Poetika vyrazitel’nosti. Sbornik statei [Poetics of expressiveness: Essays; co-author Iu.K. Shcheglov. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Sonderband 2. Vienna, 1980. 257 pp.
  4. [Essays in a Poetics of Expressiveness; co-author Iu.K. Shcheglov]. Russian Literature, Special Issue XI-1  Developments of the Theory of Literature II (1982). Vvedenie: Poetika vyrazitel’nosti [Instroduction: Poetics of Expressiveness] (p. 1-17); Ex ungue leonem: Invarianty Tolstogo i struktura ego detskikh rasskazov [(co-author Iu.K. Shcheglov) Ex ungue leonem: Leo Tolstoy’s Invariants and the Structure of his Stories for Children] (p. 19-47); Poeticheskii mir kak sistema invariantov i zadachi sopostavitel’noi poetiki [“Poetic World” as a System of Invariants and  the Issues of Comparative Poetics] (p. 91-110); Bibliografiia rabot po poetike vyrazitel’nosti [A Bibliogrpahy of Works in the Poetics of Exressiveness] (p. 111-116).
  5. Tolkovo-kombinatornyj slovar’ russkogo jazyka [Explanatory and combinatorial dictionary of Modern Russian; co-author I. A. Mel’chuk]. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Sonderband 14. Vienna, 1984, 992 pp.
  6. Themes and Texts: Toward a Poetics of Expressiveness. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1984. 300 pp.
  7. Mir avtora i struktura teksta. Stat’i o russkoi literature [The author’s world and the structure of the text: Essays on Russian literature; co-author Iu. Shcheglov]. Tenafly, N.J.: Hermitage, 1986. 348 pp.
  8. Poetics of Expressiveness: A Theory and Applications [co-author Yu. Shcheglov; intro. and ed. A. Zholkovsky]. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1987. 361 pp.
  9. NRZB. Rasskazy [“Illegible”. Fictions]. Moscow: Vesy, 1991. 134 pp.
  10. Bluzhdaiushchie sny [Wandering dreams]. Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel’, 1992. 430 pp.
  11. Bluzhdaiushchie sny i drugie raboty [Wandering dreams and other studies]. Moscow: Nauka – Vostochnaia literatura, 1994. 428 pp. The book in PDF.
  12. Text Counter Text. Rereadings in Russian Literary History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper). 370 pp.
  13. Babel’/Babel [ Isaak Babel; co-author M. B. Yampolsky]. Moscow: Carte blanche, 1994. 444 pp.
  14. Raboty po poetike vyrazitel’nosti. Invarianty – tema – priemy – tekst [Studies in a poetics of expressiveness: Invariants – theme – device – text; co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. Moscow: Progress-Univers, 1996. 344 pp.
  15. Inventsii [Inventions]. Moscow: Gendalf, 1995. 248 pp.
  16. Mikhail Zoshchenko: Poetika nedoveriia [Mikhail Zoshchenko: A Poetics of Mistrust]. M.: Shkola “Iazyki Russkoi Kul’tury,” 1999. 393 pp.; Moscow: LKI, 2007. 392 pp.
  17. Memuarnye vin’etki i drugie non-fictions [Memoiristic vignettes and other non-fictions]. St.Petersburg, Nizhini Novgorod: URBI, 2000. 244 pp.
  18. Erosiped i drugie vin’etki [Erosiped and other vignettes]. Moscow: Vodolei, 2003. 624 pp.
  19. Izbrannye stat’i o russkoi poezii: Invarianty, struktury, strategii, interteksty [Selected Essays on Russian Poetry: Invariants, Structures, Strategies, Intertexts]. Moscow: RGGU, 2005: 654 pp.
  20. NRZB (Rasskazy). Allegro Mafioso( Vin’etki) [Illegible ( fictions). Allegro mafioso (vignettes)]. Moscow: OGI, 2005. 272 pp.
  21. Poltora rasskaza Babelia: “Giui de Mopassan” i “Spravka/Gonorar”. Struktura, smysl, fon [Isaak Babel’s a Story and a Half: “Guy de Maupassant” and “Anwer to Inquiry/First Fee”. Structure, meaning, background]. Moscow: Komkniga (URSS), 2006. 288 P.
  22. Zvezdy i nemnogo nervno. Memuarnye vin’etki [Stars and somewhat nervous. Memoiristic vignettes], Moscow: Vremia, 2008. 320 pp.
  23. Novaia i noveishaia russkaia poeziia [Modern and Recent Russian Poetry]. Moscow: RGGU. 2009. 366 p.The book in PDF in IMLI RAN Online Library.
  24. Ostorozhno, trenozhnik! [Beware of the Tripod!] See here. Moscow: Vremia, 2010. 496 pp.
  25. Poetika Borisa Pasternaka: Invarianty, struktury, interteksty [Pasternak’s poetics: Invariants, structures, intertexts]. Moscow: NLO [New Literary Survey], 2011, 608 pp. Full PDF version.
  26. Ochnye stavki s vlastitelem i drugie razbory. Stat’i o russkoi literature [Confronting power figures: Essays on Russian prose]. Moscow: RGGU, 2011, 637 pp. Full PDF version.
  27. Iurii Shecheglov. Prosa. Poeziia. Poetika. Izbrannye raboty [Prose. Poetry. Poetics. Selected studies]. Ed. by A. K. Zholkovskii and V. A. Shcheglova. Moscow: NLO [New Literary Survey], 2012. 576 pp. PDF-version.
  28. Iurii Shecheglov. Izbrannye trudy [Selected works]. Ed. by A. K. Zholkovsky and V. A. Shcheglova. Moscow: RGGU [RSUH], 2014. 960 pp.
  29. Poetika za chainym stolom i drugie raboty [Poetics at five o’clock and other analyses]. Moscow: NLO [New Literary Survey], 2014. 820 pp. Content page in Russian in Word. Full PDF version.
  30. Naprasnye sovershenstva i drugie vin’etki [Futile perfections and other vignettes]. Moscow: AST, 2015. Audiobook – performed by Mikhail Rosliakov (2024).
  31. Bluzhdaiushchie sny. Stat’i raznykh let [Wandering dreams. Essays old and new]. St.-Petersburg: Azbuka, Azbuka-Attikus(Cultural code), 2016. 512 pp. Cover, Introduction, Contents. Full PDF-version.
  32. (co-author Yuri Shcheglov) Ex ungue leonem: Detskie rasskazy L’va Tolstogo i poetika vyrazitel’nosti [Ex ungue leonem: Leo Tolstoy’s children’s stories and the poetics of expressiveness]. Compiled by A. Zholkovsky; ed. by A. Bodrova. Moscow: NLO Publishers, 2016. 288 p.; Content page in Russian (in PDF); Compiler’s Preface in Russian (in PDF). Full PDF version.
  33. Vybrannye mesta, ili Siuzhety raznykh let [Selected passages, or Narratives of Many Years]. Мoscow: КоLibri, 2016. 576 pp. Content page in Russian (in PDF); Author’s Preface in Russian (in PDF); Vignettes (In Russian; in PDF); Short Stories. Essys. Articles  (In Russian; in PDF); In Lieu of a Conclusion (In Russian; a journal version); Afterword by Andrei Astvataturov (In Russian; in PDF).
  34. (co-author Igor Mel’chuk) Tolkovo-kombinatornyi slovar’ russkogo iazyka. Opyty semantiko-sintaksicheskogo opisaniia russkoi leksiki [Explanatory-Combinatorial Dictionary of Modern Russian]. 2nd edition, corrected and improved [of Book № 5] Moscow: Global Com, 2016. For more details (in Russian) see Ozon.ru; full PDF of the dictionary.
  35. Russkaia infinitivnaia poeziia XVIII-XX vekov. Antologiia [Russian infinitive poetry of the 18th-20th centuries. An Anthology]. Compiled, introduced and annotated by Alexander Zholkovsky, edited by Marina Akimova. Moscow: NLO Publishers, 2020. 560 p. Cover. Contents. Introduction.
  36. Vse svoi. 60 vin’etok i 2 rasskaza [Our Folks All. 60 vignettes and 2 short stories]. Moscow: NLO Publishers, 2020. The cover. The title vignette.
  37. Audiobook Iz memuarnykh vin’etok [From memoiristic vignettes]. Performed by Liudmila Larionova. 2011.
  38. Kak eto sdelano. Temy, priemy, labirinty stseplenii [How It Is Made. Themes, Devices, Labyrinths of Concatenations]. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New Literary Survey], 2024. 504 pp.

Collective Monograph

  1. Mashinnyi Perevod i Prikladnaia Lingvistika. Vyp. 8. Raboty sotrudnikov Laboratorii Mashinnogo Perevoda I MGPIiIA [Machine Translation and Applied Linguistics. Vol. 8. Papers of the Laboratory of Machine Translation of the First Moscow State Pedagogical Institue of Foreign Languages]. Moscow, 1964. Introduction and 4 articles by Alexander Zholkovsky.

2. ESSAYS

A. Linguistics

1. O printsipial’nom ispol’zovanii smysla pri mashinnom perevode [On the relevance of meaning to machine translation; co-authors N. N. Leont’eva, Iu. S. Martem’ianov]. In: Mashinnyi perevod. Trudy ITM i VT AN SSSR [Machine translation. Papers of the Precision Mechanics and Computation Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences], v. 2, 1960; English version in: Essays on Lexical Semantics, V. Ju. Rozencvejg ed., 2 vols., Stockholm: Skriptor, 1974, , v. 1.
2. Raboty Charni po strukturnoi semantike [Elisabeth Charney’s work in structural semantics]. Voprosy iazykoznaniia [Problems of linguistics], 1961, 6.
3. Raboty Kembridzhskoi gruppy po mashinnomu perevodu [Cambridge Language Research Unit’s papers on and in machine translation]. Mashinnyi perevod i prikladnaia lingvistika [Machine translation and applied linguistics], 1961, 5.
4. Soveshchanie po izucheniiu poeticheskogo iazyka (Obzor dokladov) [Session on Study of Poetic Language (Overview of Papers)] Mashinnyi perevod i prikladnaia lingvistika [Machine translation and applied linguistics], 7 (1962): 88-101.
5. O pravilakh semanticheskogo analiza [On rules for semantic analysis], Mashinnyi Perevod i Prikladnaia Lingvistika, 1964, 8: 17-32; Engl. version in Rozencvejg ed., 1974, v. 1.
6. Leksika tselesoobraznoi deiatel’nosti [The vocabulary of purposeful activity], Mashinnyi Perevod i Prikladnaia Lingvistika, 1964, 8: 67-103; Engl. version in Rozencvejg ed., 1974, v. 1.
7. Raboty Sepira po strukturnoi semantike [Sapir’s work in structural semantics], Mashinnyi Perevod i Prikladnaia Lingvistika 1964, 8: 184-198; Engl. version in Rozencvejg ed., 1974, v. 1.
8. Predislovie [Introduction (to the collected papers of the Laboratory of Machine Translation of the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages)]. Mashinnyi Perevod i Prikladnaia Lingvistika, 1964, 8: 3-16; Engl. version in Rozencvejg ed., 1974, v. 1.
9. O vozmozhnom metode i instrumentakh semanticheskogo sinteza [On a possible method and tools for the semantic synthesis of texts; co-author I. A. Mel’chuk]. Nauchno-tekhnicheskaia informatsiia [Scientific-technological information], 1966, 11.
10. O sisteme semanticheskogo sinteza, I. Stroenie slovaria [On a system for the semantic synthesis of texts, I. The structure of the dictionary; co-author I. A. Mel’chuk]. Nauchno-tekhnicheskaia informatsiia, 1966, 11.
11. Posledovatel’nosti predglagol’nykh chastits v jazyke somali [Sequences of preverbal particles in Somali]. In: Jazyki Afriki [The Languages of Africa], B. A. Uspenskii ed., Moscow: Nauka, 1966.
12. K leksikograficheskomu opisaniiu somaliiskikh sushchestvitel’nykh [On the lexicographic description of Somali nouns]. Narody Asii i Afriki [The peoples of Asia and Africa], 1967, 1.
13. O semanticheskom sinteze [On the semantic synthesis of texts; co-author I. A. Mel’chuk]. Problemy kibernetiki [Problems of cybernetics], 1967, 19; French version, T. A. informations, 1970, N2.
14. O sisteme semanticheskogo sinteza, II. Pravila perifrazirovaniia [On a system for the semantic synthesis, II. Periphrasing rules; co-author I. A. Mel’chuk], Nauchno-tekhnicheskaia informatsija, series 2, 1967, 2.
15. Sintaksis nezavisimogo utverditel’nogo predlozheniia v jazyke somali [The syntactic structure of the independent affirmative sentence in Somali; abstract of the Ph. D. dissertation]. Moscow: MGU, 1968.
16. O sisteme semanticheskogo sinteza, III. Obraztsy slovarnykh statei [On a system for the semantic synthesis of texts, III. Samples of dictionary entries; co-authors Iu. D. Apresian, I. A. Mel’chuk]. Nauchno-tekhnicheskaia informatsiia, series 2, 1968, 11.
17. K postroeniiu deistvuiushchei modeli jazyka “Smysl – Tekst” [Towards a functioning ‘Meaning – Text’ model of language; co-author I. A. Mel’chuk]. Mashinnyi perevod i prikladnaia lingvistika, 1969, 11; and in: Sign, Language, Culture, A. J. Greimas et al. eds., The Hague: Mouton, 1970; Engl. version in Linguistics, 1970, 57, May, and in Rozencvejg ed., 1974, v. 2.
18. Ob odnom sposobe izucheniia sochetaemosti slov [On a method for the study of lexical co-occurence; co-authors Ju. D. Apresian, I. A. Mel’chuk]. Russkii jazyk v natsional’noi shkole [The Russian language in an ethnic school], 1969, 6.
19. Materialy k russko-somaliiskomu slovariu [Materials for a Russian-Somali dictionary]. Mashinnyi perevod i prikladnaia lingvistika, 1970, 13. Also in: Voprosy afrikanskoi filologii [Problems of African philology], N. V. Okhotina ed., Moscow: Nauka, 1974; Engl. version in Rozencvejg ed., 1974, v. 2.
20. O glubinnom i poverkhnostnom sintaksise (na materiale jazyka somali) [On the deep and surface syntax (as applied to Somali material)], Predvaritel’nye publikatsii…, 5 (1970), and in Izvestiia Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriia literatury i jazyka [Communications of the Academy of Sciences, USSR, Literary and linguistic series], 29 (1970), 5.
21-34. Vyrazhenie v jazyke somali gruppy znachenii, sviazannykh s ideei stepeni [The expression in Somali of the idea of grading]. In: Problemy afrikanskogo jazykoznaniia [Problems of African linguistics], N. V. Okhotina and B. A. Uspenskii eds., Moscow: Nauka, 1971.

  • Materialy k tolkovo-kombinatornomu slovariu russkogo jazyka [Materials for an explanatory and combinatorial dictionary of Modern Russian; co-authors Ju. D. Apresian, I. A. Mel’chuk, et. al.]. Predvaritel’nye publikatsii Problemnoi Gruppy po Eksperimental’noi i Prikladnoi Lingvistike Instituta Russkogo Jazyka AN SSSR  [Preliminary publications of the Problem Group for the Experimental and Applied Linguistics of the Institute of the Russian Language of the USSR Academy of Sciences], 1970, 2, 4; 1971, 14, 23; 1972, 26, 28, 29; 1973, 34, 35, 42; 1976, 30; Engl. version of some of these in No. 33.

35. Eksperimental’nyi fragment anglo-russkogo tolkovo-kombinatornogo slovaria v protsesse perevoda [An experimental fragment of an English-Russian automatic explanatory and combinatorial dictionary in the process of (simulated automatic) translation; co-authors I. A. Mel’chuk, Z. M. Shaliapina]. Predvaritel’nye publikatsii…, 16 (1971).
36. O sisteme semanticheskogo sinteza, IV. Obraztsy slovarnykh statei [On a system for the semantic synthesis of texts, IV. Samples of dictionary entries; co-author I. A. Mel’chuk]. Nauchno-tekhnicheskaia informatsiia, series 2, 1972, 9.
37. Into i out of – k semanticheskomu tolkovaniiu dvukh angliiskikh predlogov [Into and out of: Towards a semantic definition of two English prepositions; co-author T. V. Pivovarova], Informatsionnye voprosy semiotiki, lingvistiki i avtomaticheskogo perevoda [Informatic problems of semiotics, linguistics and automatic translation (Moscow: VINITI)], 1972, v. 3.
38. Semantics and lexicography: towards a new type of unilingual dictionary [co-authors Ju. D. Apresian, I. A. Mel’chuk]. In: Studies in Syntax and Semantics, F. Kiefer ed., Dordrecht-Holland: D. Reidel, 1970.
39. Proba objasniajaco-kombinatorycznego slownika jezyka rosyjskiego [Compiling an explanatory-combinatory dictionary of modern Russian; co-authors Ju. D. Apresian, I.A. Mel’chuk]. In: Semantyka i Slownik [Semantics and the dictionary], M.-R. Mayenowa ed.; Warszawa: Ossolineum, 1972.
40. Materials for an explanatory-combinatory dictionary of modern Russian [co-authors Ju. D. Apresian, I. A. Mel’chuk]. In: Trends in Soviet Theoretical Linguistics, F. Kiefer ed., Dordrecht, Holland, and Boston, USA: D. Reidel, 1973.
41. O sisteme semanticheskogo sinteza, V. Obraztsy slovarnykh statei [On a system for the semantic synthesis of texts, V. Samples of dictionary entries; co-author E. E. Razlogova]. Informatsionnye voprosy semiotiki, lingvistiki i avtomaticheskogo perevoda, 1974, v. 4.
42. O nekotorykh utochneniiakh i popravkakh k sisteme perifrazirovaniia [Perfecting the periphrasing system]. Nauchno-tekhnicheskaia informatsiia, 1977, 5.
43. Vokabula “CHUVSTVO” v tolkovo-kombinatornom slovare sovremennogo russkogo jazyka [The entry “FEELING” in the explanatory combinatorial dictionary of Modern Russian; co-authors L. Iordanskaia, I. Mel’chuk], Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 13, 1984, 87-109.
44. The Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary (co-author I. Mel’chuk), in Relational Models of the Lexicon, ed. by Martha Evans, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, 41-74.

B. Literature

  1. Ob usilenii [On amplification]. In: Strukturno-tipologicheskie issledovaniia [Structural-typological studies], T. Moloshnaia ed., Moscow: Institut Slavianovedeniia AN SSSR, 1962, 161-171; Italian version in: I sistemi di segni e lo strutturalismo Sovietico, R. Faccani, U. Eco, eds., Milano: Bompiani, 1969.
  2. Deus ex machina. Trudy po znakovym sistemam [Studies in sign sistems (Tartu: TGU)], 3 (1967), 146-155, and in: Sign, Language, Culture, A. J. Greimas ed., The Hague: Mouton, 539-547; Italian version in: I sistemi di segni e lo structturalismo Sovietico, R. Faccani, U. Eco eds., Milano: Bompiani, 1969; Engl. version in Book No. 6.
  3. Iz predystorii sovetskikh rabot po strukturnoi poetike [From the prehistory of the Soviet research in structural poetics, co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. Trudy po znakovym sistemam, 3 (1967), 367-377; Engl. version in Soviet Studies in Literature. A Journal of Translations, 31 (1985), No. 3-4, Carol Any guest ed.
  4. Strukturnaia poetika – porozhdaiushchaia poetika [Structural poetics is  generative poetics; co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. Voprosy literatury [Problems of literature], 1967, 1, 74-89; German version in: Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, J. Ihwe ed., Frankfurt am Main: Athenaum Fischer, 1972; English version in: Soviet Semiotics, D. Lucid ed., Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
  5. Porozhdaiushchaia poetika v rabotakh S.M. Eizenshteina [A generative poetics in the works of S. M. Eisenstein]. In: Sign, Language, Culture. A. J. Greimas et al. ed., The Hague: Mouton, 1970, 451-468, and in Book No. 14<; Ital. version in: Cinema e Film, 1967, 1 (3); French version in: Ca (Cinema), 1975, 7/8; Span. version in: Semiologia del Teatro, J. M. D. Borque and L. Lorenzo eds., Barcelona: Planeta; Engl. version in Russian Poetics in Translation, 8 (1981), 40-61, and in Book No. 6.
  6. Somaliiskii rasskaz “Ispytanie proritsatelia.” Opyt porozhdaijushchego opisaniia [The Somali story “A Soothsayer’s Trial”. An attempt of a generative analysis]. Narody Asii i Afriki [The peoples of Asia and Africa], 1970, 1:104-115; Spanish version in Prohemio, 1 (1970),3; French version in: Analyse et validation dans l’etude des donnees textuelles, M. Borillo, J. Virbel eds., Paris: CNRS, 1977; Engl. version in Book No. 6, pp. 85-98; short Engl. version in: A Soothsayer Tested. Somali Folktales, ed. and transl. by G.L. Kapchits, Moscow: The Way, 2006, pp. 205-217. 6а. “Ispytanie proritsatelia” [A Soothsayer’s Triial]. Transl. from Somali A. Zholkovskii. In: Skazki Narodov Afriki [Folktales of Africa]. Eds. A.A. Zhukov and S. Kotliar. Moscow: Nauka, 1976. P. 522-534.
  7. “Otsutstvuiushchaia struktura”: Umberto Eco, La Struttura assente, 1968 [The Absent Structure (review of Umberto Eco’s La struttura assente]. Voprosy filosofii [Problems of philosophy], 1970, 2: 171-177.
  8. K opisaniiu smysla sviaznogo teksta (na materiale khudozestvennykh tekstov) [Describing the meaning of a coherent text (as applied to artistic texts); co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov. Predvaritel’nye publikatsii…, 22 (1971); Spanish version in Prohemio, 3 (1972), 2; Engl. version in Russian Poetics in Translation, 1 (1975).
  9. K opisaniiu…, II. Tema i priemy vyrazitel’nosti. Primer vyvoda teksta iz temy. [II. Theme and expressive devices. An example of Theme-Text derivation; co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. Predvaritel’nye publikatsii…, 33 (1972).
  10. K opisaniiu…, III. Priemy vyrazitel’nosti, c. 1 [III. Expressive devices, pt. 1; co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. Predvaritel’nye publikatsii…, 39 (1973).
  11. K opisaniiu…, IV. Priemy vyrazitel’nosti, c. 2 [IV. Expressive devices, pt. 2; co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. Predvaritel’nye publikatsii…, 49 (1974).
  12. K opisaniiu…, V. O poeticheskom mire Pasternaka [V. On Pasternak’s poetic world]. Predvaritel’nye publikatsii…, 61 (1974); a revised version in Book No. 3, 205-244.
  13. K opisaniiu sviazi mezhdu glybinnymi i poverkhnostnymi urovniami khudozhestvennogo teksta [Describing the links between the deep and surface levels of a literary text]. In: Materialy Vsesoiuznogo Simpoziuma po Vtorichnym Modeliruiushchim Sistemam [Materials of the All-Union Symposium on Secondary Modelling Systems], I, 5 (1974), Tartu: TGU, 161-167.
  14. K poniatiiam “tema” i “poeticheskii mir” [Towards the concepts of “theme” and “poetic world”; co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. Trudy po znakovym sistemam, 7 (1975), 143-167; Engl. version in Russian Poetics in Translation, 1 (1975).
  15. Poetics as a theory of expressiveness: Towards a “Theme – Expressiveness Devices – Text” model of literary structure [co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. Poetics, 5 (1976), 207-246.
  16. K opisaniiu odnogo tipa semioticheskikh sistem (poeticheskii mir kak sistema invariantov) [Describing one type of semiotic system: poetic world as a system of invariants]. Semiotika i informatika [Semiotics and informatics], 7 (1976), 27-61. A different version Poeticheskii mir kak sistema invariantov i zadachi sopostavitel’noi poetiki in Book No. 4.
  17. K opisaniiu…, VI. Poeticheskii mir Pushkina i “Ia vas liubil…”, ch. 1-3 [VI, pts. 1-3. Pushkin’s poetic world and “I loved you once…”]. Predvaritel’nye publikatsii…, 76-78 (1976).
  18. Zametki o tekste, podtekste i tsitatsii u Pasternaka [Notes on text, subtext and quoting in Pasternak]. In: Boris Pasternak. Essays, N. A. Nilsson ed., Stockholm: Almqvist & Wicksell, 1976, 67-84.
  19. K opisaniiu priema vyrazitel’nosti VAR’IROVANIE [Describing the expressive device of VARIATION; co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. Semiotika i informatika, 9 (1977), 106-150; Engl. version in Book No. 8.
  20. On three analogies between linguistics and poetics (semantic invariance, obligatoriness of grammatical meanings, competence vs. performance). Poetics, 6 (1977), 77-106; Russian version in: Semiotika i informatika, 10 (1977).
  21. Razbor stikhotvoreniia Pushkina “Ia vas liubil...” [An analysis of Pushkin’s poem “I loved you once…”]. Izvestiia Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriia literatury i iazyka [Communications of the Academy of Sciences, USSR, Literary and linguistic series], 36 (1977), 3, 252-263; an expanded Russian version in Russian literature, 7 (1979), 1-25 (both are short versions of No. 17), and in Book No. 19: 46-59; Engl. version in New Literary History, 9 (1977-78), 264-278, and in Book No. 6.
  22. The poetic structure of a maxim by La Rochefoucauld: An essay in “Theme – Text” poetics [co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. Poetics and Theory of Literature 3 (1978), 549-592; Russian version in: Paremiologicheskii sbornik [Essays on paremiology], G. L. Permjakov ed., Moscow: Nauka, 1978 (revised version of No. 9).
  23. Sovremennaia lingvistika i metodologiia izucheniia literaturnogo proizvedeniia [Modern linguistics and the methodology of the study of literary works; co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. Tekst. Jezyk. Poetyka, M.-R. Mayenowa ed., Warzawa: Ossolineum, 1978, 217-239.
  24. K opisaniiu…, VIII. “Voina i mir” dlia detskogo chteniia. Invariantnaia tematiko-vyrazitel’naia struktura detskikh rasskazov L. N. Tolstogo, ch. 1-3 [VIII. “War and Peace” for children’s reading: The invariant thematic-expressive structure of L. N. Tolstoy’s children’s stories, pts. 1-3; co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. Predvaritel’nye publikatsii…, 104-106 (1978); Engl. version in Book No. 8.
  25. How to show things with words (ob ikonicheskoi realizacii tem sredstvami plana vyrazheniia) [On the iconic representation of themes by expression plane means]. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 2 (1978), 5-24, and in Book No. 14; Engl. version in Poetics, 8 (1979), 405-430, and in Book No. 6.
  26. The window in the poetic world of Boris Pasternak. New Literary History, 9 (1977-78), 279-314, and in Book No. 6; Russian version in Russian Literature, 6 (1978), 1, 1-38 and in Book No. 14.
  27. At the intersection of linguistics, paremiology and poetics: on the artistic structure of proverbs. Poetics, 7 (1978), 309-332; Russian version in Paremiologicheskii sbornik, G. L. Permjakov ed., Moscow: Nauka, 1978.
  28. O podgotovke rifmy: PREDVESTIIA i OTKAZY v rifmovke [On the preparation of rhymes: PRESAGES and RECOILS in rhyming]. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 4 (1979), 125-151; Engl. version in Book No. 6.
  29. Rai, zamaskirovannyi pod dvor: Zametki o poeticheskom mire Bulata Okudzhavy [Paradise disguised as a courtyard: Notes on the poetic world of Bulat Okudzhava]. Neue Russische Literatur 1 (1979), 101-120 (Russian version; also in Books No. 7: 279-308, No. 19: 109-135), 281-306 (German version).
  30. Materialy k opisaniiu poeticheskogo mira Pushkina [Materials towards a description of Pushkin’s poetic world]. In: Russian Romanticism. Studies in the Poetic Codes, N. A. Nilsson ed., Stockholm: Almqvist & Wicksell, 1979, 45-93 (revised version of No. 17); updated version in Book No. 19: 13-45; short Russian version in Trudy po znakovym sistemam 11 (1979), 3-25; revised Engl. versions in Russian Poetics in Translation 8 (1981), 62-107, and in Book No. 6, 159-178.
  31. Invarianty i struktura teksta. Mandel’shtam: “Ia p’iu za voennye astry” [Invariant motifs and the text structure. Mandelstam’s “I drink to the military asters…”]. Slavica Hierosolymitana, 4 (1979), 159-184, and in Books No. 7 and 19: 60-82 ( “Ia p’u za voennye astry..”: Poeticheskii avtoportret Mandel’shtama” [“I drink to the military asters: Mandelstam’ s poetic self-portrait”]). Shorter version in: Slovo i sud’ba: Osip Mandel’shtam. Issledovaniia i materialy [Word and destiny: Osip Mandelstam. Studies and materials], Z. S. Papernyi ed., Moscow: Nauka, 1991, pp. 413-427.
  32. Ex ungue leonem: The invariant structure of Leo Tolstoy’s children’s stories [co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. VS (Versus) 24 (1979), 3-36; Russian version in Book No. 4 (both are short versions of No. 24).
  33. The “Eclipsing” construction and its place in the structure of L. Tolstoy’s children’s stories [co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. Russian Literature, 7 (1979), 121-159; Russian version in Book No. 3, 115-144, and in Book No. 14.
  34. Comparing poetic worlds. Diacritics, 1980, Winter, 60-74, and in Book No. 6; Russian version in Book No. 4.
  35. An Essay in Arch Poetics: The Deep and Surface Structures of the Archpoet of Cologne’s “Confession” in Service of an Ambivalent Theme [co-author Yu. Shcheglov]. Working Papers and Pre-publications of the International Center for Linguistics and Semiotics, Urbino: Universita di Urbino, 1981, series B, 103-105, and in Book No. 8, 255-304; Russian version in Book No. 3.
  36. ‘Obstoiatel’stva velikolepiia’: ob odnoi pasternakovskoi chasti rechi [‘Circumstances of magnificence’: on one Pasternakian part of speech]. In: Voz’mi na radost’. To Honour Jeanne van der Eng, W. Weststeijn et al. eds., Amsterdam: Slavic Seminar, 1980: 157-168.
  37. O prieme vyrazitel’nosti OTKAZ [On the expressive device of RECOIL; co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. Slavica Hierosolymitana 5-6 (1981), 109-36 and in Book No. 14; Engl. version in Book No. 8.
  38. Zametki o “Tsarskosel’skoi statue” [Notes on “A Statue in Tsarskoe Selo”]. Russian Literature Journal, 35 (1981), 120 [special Pushkin issue, S. Senderovich guest ed.]: 127-149, and in Book No. 19: 371-389.
  39. ‘Distributive contact’: a syntactic invariant in Pasternak. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 9 (1982), 119-147.
  40. Poeziia i grammatika pasternakovskogo “Vetra” [Poetry and grammar in Pasternak’s “Wind”]. Russian Literature 14 (1983), 241-286.
  41. October 19, 1982, or: The semiotics of a Soviet cookie wrapper. Wiener Slawistischer Alamanach 11 (1983; special Mel’chuk issue), 341-354.
  42. O Mel’chuke [About Mel’chuk]. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 11 (1983; special Mel’chuk issue), 341-354, in Book No. 15, and in Ocherki istorii informatiki v Rossii [Essays in the history of informatics in Russia]. Eds. D. A. Pospelov, Ia. I. Fet. Novosibrsik: Nauchno-izdatel’skii Tsentr OIGGM SO RAN, 1998. P. 351-358 and in Book No. 17.
  43. Pun and Punishment: The Structure of a Bertrand Russell Aphorism. In Book No. 6, pp. 112-131. Early Russian version in Book No. 3, pp. 47-60, complete Russian version in Book No. 15: 134-142, and Book No. 26: 94-102.
  44. The ‘sinister’ in the poetic world of Pasternak. International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 29 (1984), 109-131. Russian version in Book No. 25: 65-91
  45. Seven “winds”: translations of Pasternak’s “Veter.” In Language and Literary Theory, B. Stolz et al. eds., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1984, 623-643.
  46. “Pobeda” Vasiliia Aksenova [Aksenov’s “Victory”]. Dvadtsat’ dva [Twenty two] 36 (1984), 194-208; revised version in Books No. 7, 14; Engl. version in To Honor Vasilij Aksenov, E. Mozejko ed., Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1986.
  47. Poems. In Discourse and Literature, T.A. van Dijk ed., Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1985, 105-119.
  48. Iz zapisok po poezii grammatiki [From notes on the poetry of grammar]: On Pasternak’s figurative voices. Russian Linguistics (special Zalizniak issue; W. Lehfeldt guest ed.), 9 (1985), 375-386. Russian version in Kritika i semiotika, 7 (2004), 203-216, and in Book No. 19: 489-501
  49. Chuzhikh pevtsov bluzhdaiushchie sny. O tsitatnykh pereklichkakh poetov [The wandering dreams of alien bards. On intertextuality in Russian poetry]. Russkaia mysl’ [Russian thought (Paris)], 3572-3574 (1985) and in Books No. 10, 11.
  50. “Fro”: piat’ prochtenii [(Platonov’s) “Fro”: five readings]. Voprosy literatury [Problems of literature], 1989, 12, 23-49, and “Dusha, dal’ i tekhnologiia chuda (Piat’ prochtenii “Fro”)” [Soul, distance and the technology of miracle (Five readings of “Fro”)] in Andrei Platonov. Mir tvorchestva [Andrei Platonov: His creative world), N. Kornienko. E. Shubina eds., Moscow: Sovremenyi pisatel’, 1994: 373-396; Engl. version, The codes and contexts of Platonov’s “Fro”, in Book No. 12: 270-296. Brief early Russian version: Tekhnologiia chuda i ee razoblachenie (zametki o Platonove) [The technology of miracle and its unmasking (notes on Platonov)]. Russkaia mysl’, 3600 (1985).
  51. Mekhanizmy vtorogo rozhdeniia [The dynamics of the second birth]. Sintaksis [Syntax (Paris)] 14 (1985), 77-97, Literaturnoe obozrenie [Literary survey], 1990, 2, 35-41; revised version (“Mne khochetsia domoi, v ogromnost’…” Pasternaka: sotsial’nyi zakaz, tematika, struktura [Pasternak’s “I Want to Go Home, into the Hugeness…”: Social command, thematics, structure] in Izvestiia Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriia literatury i iazyka [Communications of the Academy of Sciences, USSR, Literary and linguistic series], 50 (1991) (1): 20-34; French vers. (Instruments pour l’analyse thematique appliques a un poeme de Pasternak) in Strumenti Critici, 4 (1989), 2, 179-91. Expanded Engl. version “The dynamics of adaptation: Pasternak’s Second birth” in Book No. 12: 213-238. Expanded Russian version in Book № 25, Poetika Borisa Pasternaka, pp. 298-337 (PDF version of the book).
  52. Iskusstvo prisposobleniia [The art of adaptation]. Grani [Facets], 38 (1985), 78-97, Literaturnoe obozrenie [Literary survey], 1990, 6, 6-51, and in Books No. 10, 11.
  53. Writing in the wilderness: on Brodskii and a sonnet. Slavic and East European Journal, 30 (1986), 3, 404-419; revised Engl. version: De- and re-constructing a classic: “I loved you” by Joseph Brodsky in Book No. 12: 117-146; Russian version in Poetika Brodskogo [Brodsky’s Poetics], L. Losev ed., Tenafly, N.J.: Hermitage, 1986, 38-62, and in Books No. 10, 11 (“Ia vas liubil…” Brodskogo [Joseph Brodsky’s “I loved you once…”]); pp. 205-224, and Book No. 19: 292-308.
  54. Grafomanstvo kak priem: Lebiadkin, Khlebnikov, Limonov i drugie [Graphomania as Technique: Lebiadkin, Khlebnikov, Limonov and others]. In: Velimir Chlebnikov: Myth and Reality. 1885-1985, W. Weststeijn ed., Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1986, 573-593, and in Books No. 10, 11 Bluzhdaiushchie sny i drugie raboty (1994: 54-68) and No 31 Bluzhdaiushchie sny. Stat’i raznykh let (3 ed., 2016: 205-216). Also on the site “Khlebnikova pole” [Velimir Khlebnikov’s Field.]
  55. Review of: On the Beneficence of Censorship: Aesopian Language in Modern Russian Literature by Lev Loseff.  The Russian Review, vol. 45, No. 3 (Jul., 1986), p. 349-351.
  56. Zamiatin, Orvell i Khvorob’ev. O snakh novogo tipa [Zamiatin, Orwell, and Khvorob’ev: On a new type of dream]. Grani [Facets], 140 (1986), 178-212, and in Books No. 11, 12. Engl. version A dystopian “Newdream” Fivefold: Analyzing Ilf and Petrov’s Closet Monarchist in Book No. 12: 241-269, and in Slavic Review 48 (1989), 1, 36-53.
  57. Lev Tolstoi i Mikhail Zoshchenko kav zerkalo i zazerkal’e russkoi revoliutsii [Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and the Russian Revolution]. Sintaksis, 16 (1986), 103-129, Voprosy literatury [Problems of literature], 1990, 4, 54-76, and in Books No. 10, 11; Engl. version Through Revolution’s looking-glass: Tolstoy into Zoshchenko in Book No. 12: 35-57.
  58. Liubovnaia lodka, upriazh’ dlia Pegasa i pokhoronnaia kolybel’naia: tri stikhotvoreniia i tri perioda Pasternaka [A love boat, a harness for Pegassus, and a funereal lullaby: three poems and three periods of Pasternak] in Book 7: 228-254; short French version: La poetique de Pasternak. In: Histoire de la literature russe. Le XX-e siecle. Gels et degeles. Ed. by E. Etkind, G. Nivat, I. Serman, V. Strada. Paris: Fayard, 1990: 488-504. Short Russian version in Book 25: 10-24.
  59. O genii i zlodeistve, o babe i vserossiiskom masshtabe (Progulki po Maiakovskomu) [About genius and villainy, about stupid women, and the all-Russian scale] in Books No. 7: 255-278, No. 11: 247-275, and No. 19: 195-220.
  60. Poetu nastoiashchemu spasibo… (O novykh stikhakh B. Okudzhavy) [Many thanks to a genuine poet… (On B. Okudzava’s new poems)]. Strana i mir [The nation and the world], 1987, 4 [40], 133-140.
  61. Dialog Bulgakova i Oleshi o kolbase, parade chuvstv i Golgofe [The dialogue between Olesa and Bulgakov about salami, the parade of emotions, and the Calvary]. Sintaksis 20 (1987), 90-117; revised version in Books No, 11, 12; revised Engl. version A duet in three movements: Bulgakov — Olesha – Bulgakov in Book No. 12: 181-212.
  62. Vliublenno-blednye nartsissy o vremeni i o sebe [Pale enamoured narcissi on time and themselves]. Beseda [Conversation (Paris)] 6 (1987), 144-177; revised version in Books No. 10, 11.
  63. [Review of] O. Ronen, An Approach to Mandel’stam, Jerusalem, 1983. Slavic and East European Journal 31 (1987): 115-117.
  64. Intertextuality, its content and discontents (review article of I. P. Smirnov’s Porozhdenie intertexta [Generating the intertext]). Slavic Review, 47 (1988) 4, 726-729.
  65. Three on courtship, corpses, and culture (Tolstoy, “After the Ball,” Zoshchenko, “Lady with Flowers,” E. Ginzburg, “Paradise under the Microscope).” Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 22 (1989), 7-24; revised version in Book No. 12: 66-87; Russ. version in Books No. 11, 12.
  66. The beauty mark and the ‘I’s of the beholder. Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis, D. Rancour-Laferriere ed., Amsterdam: John Benjamins 1989, 329-352, revised version in Book No. 12: 147-163, short Russian version Book No. 11: 234-242, complete Russian version (forthcoming) to appear as: Intertekstual ponevole (Limonov’s “Ia v mysliakh poderzhu drugogo cheloveka…” [Intertextual malgre lui (Limonov’s “I will hold another person in my thoughts…”)] in Book No. 19: 309-326.
  67. The stylistic roots of Palisandria. Canadian-American Slavic Studies (special Sasha Sokolov issue; D. Barton Johnson guest ed.) 21, Nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1987 [actually publ. 1990], 369-400). Russian version in: Vos’maia mezhdunarodnaia letniaia shkola po russkoi literature. Sbornik statei. Red.-sost. A. Kobrinskii i dr. [The Eighth International Summer School in Russian literature]. St.-Petersburg/ Kaukolepiaa (Tsvelodubovo): Svoe izdatel’stvo, 2012. P. 29-60; also in Book No. 29: 454-486.
  68. “Legkoe dykhanie” i “Stantsionnyi smotritel’”: Problemy kompozitsii [“Light Breathing” and “The Station Master”: Problems of composition]. Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism: From the Golden Age to the Silver Age, ed. by Boris Gasparov, Robert P. Hughes, and Irina Paperno, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Oxford, University of California Press, 1992: 293-314; also in Books No. 10, 11, 31 “”Legkoe dykhanie” Bunina-Vygotskogo sem’desiat let spustia” [“Light Breathing” by Bunin-Vygotsky 70 years later]; expanded Engl. version A study in framing: Pushkin, Bunin, Nabokov, and theories of story and discourse in Book No. 12: 88-116.
  69. Poetry of grammar, poetic worlds and grammatical motifs. Semiotics 1982, John Deely and Jonathan Evans eds., Bloomington: Lanham, New York and London: University Press of America, 1987: 129-138.
  70. Levels, domains, invariants: A format for the description of poems. In Semiotics 1983, John Deely and Jonathan Evans eds. Lanham, New York and London: University Press of America, 1987: 333-345.
  71. Mezhdu zhanrami [Between genres] in: Tsel’nost’. O tvorchestve L. Ia. Ginzburg [Integrity. On the work of L. Ja Ginzburg; by several participants]. Literaturnoe obozrenie [Literary survey], 1989 (10): 78-86 (p. 83) and in Books No. 9: 131-133, 15: 154-157, 18: 580-586; English version, “Between Genres,” in a collection of essays on Ginzburg, ed. by Jane Harris as a special issue of Canadian-American Slavic Studies 28 (1994) 2-3: 157-160.
  72. The terrible armor-clad general line: A new profile of Eisenstein’s poetics. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, special volume 31 (Psychopoetik. Beitraege zur Tagung “Psychologie und Literatur,” Muenchen 1991, ed. by A. Hansen-Loeve) 1992: 481-502; a revised version, Eisenstein’s poetics: dialogical or totalitarian? in: Laboratory of Dreams: The Russian Avant-Garde and Cultural Experiment, ed. by John E. Bowlt and Olga Matich, Stanford UP, 1996: 245-256; Russ. version in Kinovedcheskie zapiski 16, in Book No. 11: 296-311. Russian version: Poetika Eizenshteina: dialogicheskaia ili totalitarnaia? Kinovedcheskie zapiski 16 (1992): 118-136, and in Book No. 11: 296-311;also in the books: Bluzhdaiushchie sny. Stat’i raznykh let [Wandering dreams. Essays old and new], 358-374; S.M. Eisenstein: pro et contra. Antologiia [S.M. Eisenstein: pro et contra. Anthology]. 2nd edition. Ed. By D. K. Bogatyrev. Comp. and comment. by N. S. Skorokhod et al.; intro. By O. L. Kovalova. SPb.: Izd-vo RKhGA (Russkii put’), 2015: 739-751.
  73. Rereading Gogol’s miswritten book: notes on Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends, in Essays on Gogol: Logos and the Russian Word, ed. by S. Fusso and P. Meyer, Evanston, Illinois: Nothwestern University Press, 1992: 172-84, and in Book No. 12: 17-34; Russian version in Books No. 10, 11.
  74. Morfologiia i istoricheskie korni “Posle bala” L. N. Tolstogo (iazychestvo i khristianstvo) [The Morphology and Historical Roots of L. N. Tolstoy’s “After the Ball” (Paganism and Christianity)]. Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, 3 vls, ed. by B. Gasparov, R. Hughes, I. Paperno, and O. Raevsky-Hughes, UC Press, v. 3 (16-38), in Daugava [Riga] 1990, 12: 80-93, and in Books No. 10, 11: 87-102; short Engl. version in Sprache – Text – Kultur, ed. by K. Eimermacher and P. Grzybek, Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1991: 271-9; revised Engl. version in Book No. 12: 59-87.
  75. Biografiia, struktura, tsitatsiia (eshche neskol’ko puskinskikh podtekstov) [Biography, structure, quoting: some Pushkinian subtexts]. In: Tainy remesla. Akhmatovskie chteniia, II [Craft’s secrets. Akhmatova studies, II], ed. by N. Koroleva and S. A. Kovalenko, Moscow: Nasledie, 1992: 20-29, and in Book No. 19: 271-279. Expanded Engl. version: To Cross or Not to Cross: Akhmatova’s “Sacred Boundary”, in: Approaches to Poetry: Some Aspects of Textuality, Intertextuality and Intermediality, ed. by Janos Petofi and Terry Olivi, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1994: 248-264.
  76. Philosophy of composition: O nekotorykh aspektakh struktury odnogo literaturnogo teksta [… On some aspects of the structure of a literary text], in Readings in Russian Modernism [Kul’tura russkogo modernizma] To Honor V. F. Markov’, ed. by J. Malmstad and R. Vroon. UCLA Slavic Studies. New Series. Vol. 1. Moscow: Nauka. Oriental Literature Publishers, 1993: 390-399, in Zolotoi vek/ The Golden Age (Moscow), 1992, 3: 69-73, and in Book No. 15: 45-56.
  77. Metashtrikhi k portretu A. M. Piatigorskogo [Meta-sketches for the portrait of A. M. Piatigorsky]. A. M. Piatigorsky Festschrift, ed. by I. Smirnov and T. Pomerantseva, Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 23 (1989): 233-40, and in Book No. 15: 171-178.
  78. Limonov na literaturnykh Olimpiks  (O rasskaze “Krasavitsa, vdokhnovliavsaia poeta”). Panorama (Los Angeles) 497, October 19-26, 1990: 18-19 (also in Sintaksis 29 [1991]: 150-160, and Literaturnoe obozrenie [Literary survey] 1991, 7: 22-25; expanded version in Book No. 15:72-87, and Book No. 19: 232-245; expanded Engl. version in Book No. 12: 163-180: Limonov at literary Olympics  (On his short story “The Belle Who Had Inspired the Poet”).
  79. Ekstaticheckie motivy Pasternaka v svete ego lichnoi mifologii (kompleks Iakova/ Akteona/ Gerakla). Boris Pasternak. 1890-1990, ed. by Lev Loseff, Northfield VT, The Russian School of Norwich University: 52-74, and in Book No. 11; short version in Literaturnoe obozrenie (Literary survey], 1991, 11: 87-91.
  80. Semiotika “Tamani” [The semiotics of [Lermontov’s] “Taman’”]. Sbornik statej k 70-letiiu prof. Iu. M. Lotmana [A collection of essays for Prof. Iu. M. Lotman’s 70th birthday], ed. by A. Mal’ts, Tartu: TGU, 1992: 248-56, and in Book No. 11: 276-282.
  81. ZH/Z: Notes of an ex-pre-poststructuralist. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Sonderband 33 (1992) 283-91; Russ. version in Literaturnoe obozrenie [Literary survey] 1991, 10: 31-35, and in Book No. 15: 6-17.
  82. On the use of taste. Le mot, les mots, les bons mots. Words, Words, Witty Words. Hommage a Igor Mel’chuk par ses amis, collegues et eleves a l’occasion de son 60-eme anniversaire, ed. by Andre Clas, Montreal: Les [presses de l’Universite de Montreal, 1992: 51-60. Russian version “O pol’ze vkusa” in: Zolotoi vek/ The Golden Age, 5 (1994), and in Book No. 15: 18-31.
  83. O trekh grammaticheskikh motivakh Pasternaka [On three grammatical motifs in Pasternak]. In Byt’ znamenitym nekrasivo… Pasternakovskie chteniia, I [Being famous is unbeautiful…: Pasternak studies, 1], ed. by I. Podgaetskaia et al., Moscow: Nasledie, 1992: 55-66.
  84. Six easy pieces on grammar of poetry, grammar of love. Literary Tradition and Practice in Russian Culture. Papers from an International Conference on the Occasion of the Seventieth Birthday of Yury Mikhailovich Lotman. Russian Culture: Structure and Tradition. 2-6 July 1992, Keele University, UK, ed. by V. Polukhina, J. Andrew, and R. Reid, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993: 192-213; Russian version, Grammatika liubvi (shest’ fragmentov), in Pasternakovskie chteniia, II [Pasternak studies, II], ed. by I. Podgaetskaia, Moscow: Nasledie, 1998, S. 132-151, and in Book No. 15: 105-121.
  85. ‘Slaughterhouse’ motifs in Mandelstam’s “The Egyptian Stamp” and environs. The Language and Verse in Russia, H. Birnbaum and M. Flier eds., Moscow and Los Angeles: UCLA Slavic Studies, New Series, Vol. 2, 1995: 304-310.
  86. Beyond “Form vs. Theme.” The Return of Thematic Criticism, ed. by Werner Sollors, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (Harvard English Studies, v. 18), 1993: 297-298.
  87. Mandelstam’s Egyptian Stamp: a study in Envy? Slavic and East European Journal 38, 2 (1994): 224-44; Russian version in Books No. 10, 11.
  88. A memo from the underground. Elementa 1, 4 (1994): 305-20; an expanded Russian version: Mezhdu Dostoevskim i Russo [Between Dostoevsky and Rousseau] in Book No. 13: 89-121.
  89. How a Russian Maupassant was made in Odessa and Yasnaya Polyana: Isaak Babel and the Tolstoy legacy. Slavic Review, 53, 3 (1994): 671-693; Russ. version: Tolstoi i Babel’, avtory Mopassana [Tolstoi and Babel’, authors of Maupassant] in Book No. 13: 30-56.
  90. Muskat 1883 goda [Muscat-1883]. In Book No. 13: 76-88.
  91. Kak sdelan Mopassan Babelia [How Babel’s Maupassant was made]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New literary survey] 4 (1993): 215-227, and in Book No. 13: 57-75.
  92. Diurua, Drei, Peredonov i drugie [Duroy, Drei, Peredonov and others]. In Book No. 13: Ch. 6, pp. 122-148.
  93. Seks v ramkakh [Sex framed]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New literary survey] 6 (1994): 15-24, and in Book No. 15: 143-153.
  94. Poetika proizvola i proizvol’nost’ poetiki. Maiakovskii: “Dachnyi sluchai”-1928 [Poetics of arbitrariness and arbitrariness of poetics. Mayakovsky-1928: The case of the “The Episode at the dacha”]. Znamia [The Banner] 1993, 11: 195-202, and in Book No. 15: 122-133, and Book No. 19: 100-108.
  95. ‘Immortality for a while’: Pasternak’s poetry of tense and time. Elementa, 2 (1996): 331-341. Russian version in: Tekst. Intertekst. Kul’tura. Sbornik dokladov mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii (Moskva 4-7 aprelia 2001 goda).[Text. Intertext. Culture. Papers from the International Conference (Moscow, April 4-7, 2001)]. Ed. by V. P. Grigor’ev, N. A. Fateeva. Moscow: Azbukovnik, 2001. P. 66-77.
  96. Na fone megaform [Against the background of megaforms]. Semiotika. Lingvistika. Poetika. K stoletiiu so dnia rozhdeniia A. A. Reformatskogo [Semiotics. Linguistics. Poetics. On the occasion of his 100th birthday]. Ed. by V. A. Vinogradov. Moscow: Iazyki Slavianskoi Kul’tury, 2004. P. 517-528.
  97. Nevidimye miru strakhi: Zoshchenko-iumorist v sumerechnom svete “Pered voskhodom solntsa” [Invisible fears: Zoshchenko’s laughter in the crepuscular light of Before Sunrise]. Mir Mikhaila Zoshchenko [The World of Mikhail Zoshchenko], ed. by G. A. Belaia and A. M. Ushakov, Moscow: Nasledie (forthcoming), and in Book No. 16: 13-28.
  98. Ruka blizhnego i ee mesto v poetike Zoshchenko. [The arm/hand of your neighbor and its place in Zoshchenko’s poetics]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New literary survey], 1995, 15: 262-286, and in Book 16: 107-131
  99. Spravka-rodoslovnaia (K teme Babel’ i Gor’kii) [A memo and a genealogy (On the Babel-Gorky relationship)]. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 34 (1994): 1-35, and in Book No. 13: 148-173.
  100. Isaac Babel, author of Guy de Maupassant. In a special Babel issue of Canadian-Slavonic Papers, guest-ed. by R. L. Busch and Allan Reid, 36 (1994) 1-2: 89-106 (short. Engl. vers. of three chapters in Book No. 13: Ch. 1: Metaportret khudozhnika v iunosti [A metaportrait of the artist as a young man], pp. 15-29, and also Chs. 2-3 (=Nos. 88, 90), pp. 37-88.
  101. Of tarts and teas: Russian and Western motifs in an Isaac Babel Story. Thematics Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Horst S. Daemmrich, ed. by Frank Trommler, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994: 145-158.
  102. Topos prostitutsii v literature [Prostitution topos in literature]. In Book No. 13: 317-368.
  103. Les mots: relire. Rusistika. Slaviska. Indoevropeistika. Sbornik k 60-letiiu A. A. Zalizniaka [Russian, Slavic, and Indoeuropean Studies. A Festschrift for A. A. Zalizniak’s 60-th birthday], ed. by T. M. Nikolaeva, A. A. Gippius,, and V. N. Toporov. Moscow: Indrik, 1996: 669-689, and in Book No. 15: 88-104.
  104. O Smerdiakove (Bulgakov i Dostoevskii) [On Smerdyakov (Bulgakov and Dostoevsky)]. Lotmanovskii sbornik. 1 [The Lotman Series. 1], ed. by E. V. Permiakov, Moscow: ITs-Garant, 1994, 568-581, and in Book No. 15: 32-44.
  105. Eccola (k donzhuanskoi teme u Zoshchenko) [Eccola (on the Don-Juan theme in Zoshchenko)]. Poeziia i zhivopis’. Sbornik trudov pamiati N.I. Khardzhieva [Poetry and painting. Essays in memory of N. I. Khardzhiev], ed. by M.B. Meilakh and D. V. Sarab’ianov. Moscow: Shkola Iazyki Russkoi Kul’tury, 2000. P. 821-834, and in Books No. 15: 57-71, 16: 288-303; also in Book No. 16: 288-303.
  106. Ubiistvennyi kalambur Bertrana Rassela [Bertrand Russel’s deadly pun]. Various versions in Books No. 3, 6, and 15: 134-142.
  107. ‘Prevoskhoditel’nyi pokoi’: Ob odnom invariantnom motive Pushkina [‘Superior peace’: On one invarian motif in Pushkin]. In Books No. 3, 14.
  108. K reinterpretatsii poetiki Mikhaila Zoshchenko: ‘Entsiklopediia strakha’ i ideinaia struktura rasskaza “Dushevnaia prostota” [Reinterpreting Zoshchenko’s poetics: the ‘encyclopedia of fear’ and the thematic structure of “Soul’s Simplicity”]. Izvestiia Akademii Nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka [Communications of the Academy of Sciences. Literary and linguistic series], 54 (1995), 5: 50-60; and in Slavica Tergentsia, 1996, 4 (Nasledie Iu. M. Lotmana: Nastoiashchee i budushchee [Iu. M. Lotman’s legacy: Present and future]. Atti del Convengno Unibersita degli Studi di Bergamo, 3-5 Novembre 1994, guest-ed. by P. Deotto, M. Nortman, and M. Pesenti): 233-250. English version in Russian Studies in Literature, 33 (1997), 2 (Studies of Mikhail Zoshchenko, guest-ed. by D. Brown, Part II): 41-48; final Russian version in Book No. 16: 48-57.
  109. Dematerializatsiia u Zoshchenko? [On dematerialization in Zoshchenko]. Flug, Entfernung, Verschwinden. Konzeptuelle Moskauer Kunst [a catalogue on post-Soviet art], hgb. von K. Becker, D. Bienert, M. Slavicka. Berlin, Kiel and Prague: Cantz Verlag, 1996: 127-130 (in German), 293-296 (in Russian).
  110. O redaktorakh [Regarding editors]. Znamia [The banner], 1996, 2: 212-220, and in Book No. 17: 204-220, No. 18 Erosiped i drugie vin’etki: 487-516 and No. 24 Ostorozhno, trenozhnik! 243-263.
  111. V minus pervom i minus vtorom zerkale: Tat’iana Tolstaia, Viktor Erofeev — akmatoviana i arhetipy [In the mirrors minus one and minus two: Tatiana Tolstaya and Viktor Erofeev — Akhmatoviana and archetypes]. Literaturnoe obozrenie [Literary survey], 253 (1995), 6: 25-41, and in Book No. 19: 246-268.
  112. Strakh, tiazhest’, mramor: iz materialov k zhiznetvorcheskoi biografii Akhmatovoi [Fear, weight, marble: materials for a life-as-art biography of Akhmatova]. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 36 (1995): 119-154; also in Book No. 29: 527-562.
  113. Anna Akhmatova: scripts, not scriptures [Review Article]. Slavic and East European Journal 40 (1996), 1: 135-141.
  114. Moi vzgliad na institut kostra i drugie instituty, ili Khokhorony vtornik [My View on the Institution of the Bonfire and Other Institutions, or Funneral Tuesday], Zvezda [The Star], 1997, 4: 233-236; also in Book No. 24: 355-362.
  115. Zoshchenko iz XXI veka, ili Poetika nedoveriia [Zoshchenko from the XXIst century, or A poetics of mistrust]. Zvezda [The Star], 1996, 5: 190-204 (repr. in: M. Zoshchenko. Rasskazy. Golubaia kniga (Kniga dlia uchenika i uchitelia). Comp. S. F. Dmitrenko. Moscow: Olimp, 1998. P. 502-532.
  116. Anna Akhmatova piat’desiat let spustia [Anna Akhmatova fifty years later]. Zvezda [The Star], 1996, 9: 211-227, and in Book No. 19: 139-174.
  117. Food, Fear, Feigning, and Flight in Zoshchenko’s “Foreigners”. Russian Literature 40 (1996), 3 (special Nilsson issue): 385-404; Russian version “Inostrantsy” ili “vse v poriadke” [“Foreigners”, or Everything under control] in Book No. 16: 247-261.
  118. Tri inventsii na grani lingvistiki i poetiki [Three inventions on the borderline between linguistics and poetics]. Moskovskii lingvisticheskii zhurnal [Moscow linguistic journal] (special Paducheva Festschrift issue), 1996, 2: 147-161.
  119. Dve konferentsii v Moskve [Two Moscow conferences [The Babel and Zoshchenko centennials]]. Literaturnoe obozrenie [Literary survey] 1995, 1: 85-87.
  120. “What is the author trying to say with his artistic work?”: rereading Zoshchenko’s oeuvre. Slavic and East European Journal, 40 (1996), 3: 458-474.
  121. “Ia po-prezhnemu oshchushchaiu sebia literaturovedom…” Beseda s Aleksandrom Zholkovskim [“I still see myself as a literary scholar…” An Interview with Alexander Zholkovsky]. Literaturnoe obozrenie [Literary survey], 261 (1997), 1: 16-22.
  122. “Monter” Zoshchenko, ili slozhnyi teatral’nyi mekhanizm [Zoshchenko’s “The Electrician,” or: This complex theatrical mechanism]. In Tynianovskii Sbornik, 10. Shestye–Sed’mye–Vos’mye Tynianovskie chteniia [The Tynianov Collection, 10. The Sixth–Seventh–Eighth Tynianov Readings]. Ed. E. A. Toddes. Moscow: 1998. P. 335-356. English version in Russian Studies in Literature, 33 (1996-1997), 1 (Studies of Mikhail Zoshchenko, guest-ed. by D. Brown, Part I): 59-79; and in Book No. 16.
  123. Zubnoi vrach, korystnaia molochnitsa, intelligentnyi monter i ikh avtor: krepkovatyi brak v mire Zoshchenko [A dentist, a greedy dairy-woman, an intellectual electrician, and their author: the theme of “stablish” marriage in Zoshchenko]. Literaturnoe obozrenie [Literary survey], 259-261 (1996), 5-6: 128-144; and in Book No. 16: 80-106.
  124. Verter na koles’iakh [Werther on wheels]. Lotmanovskii sbornik. 2 [The Lotman Series. 2], ed. by E. V. Permiakov. Moscow: OGI-RGGU, 1997: 377-392; and in Book No. 16.
  125. Eda u Zoshchenko [Eating in Zoshchenko]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New literary survey], 1997, 21: 258-273; and in Book No. 16: 233-246.
  126. Akhmatova i Maiakovskii: K teorii parodii [Akhmatova and Maiakovskii: Towards a theory of parody]. In memoriam. Sbornik pamiati Ia. S. Lur’e [In memoriam. A Collection tp honor the memory of Ia. S. Lur’e]. Ed. by N. Botvinnik and E. Vaneeva. St. Petersburg: Atheneum/Feniks, 1997. P. 383-394, and in Book No. 19: 221-231.
  127. Iz istorii vcherashnego dnia [From the history of yesterday]. Rossia/Russia 1998, 1 [9]. Semidesiatye gody kak predmet istorii russkoi kul’tury [The 1970s as a subject in the history of Russian culture]. Guest-ed. K. Iu. Rogov. P. 135-152 (also in Book No 17 (“Memuarnye vin’etki…”): 221-241); and in Book No. 17: 221-241.
  128. Kheppi-end v epokhu kul’ta lichnosti: Popytka tselostnogo analiza memuarnogo rasskaza L. A. Mazelia “Essentuki, 1952” [A happy ending in the times of the cult of personality: An essay in a comrehensive analysis of L. A. Mazel’s memoir tale “Essentuki, 1952”]. Muzyka: Analiz i estetika. Sbornik k 90-letiiu L. A. Mazelia [Music: Analysis and aesthetics: Festschrift for L. A. Mazel’s 90th birthday], ed. by I. N. Baranova, R. A. Ostrovskii, K. I. Iuzhak. Petrozavodsk and St. Petersburg: SPbGK, 1997. P. 98-115. Appendix: L. A. Mazel’, “Essentuki, 1952“, Znamia [The Banner], 1995, 10: 166-170.
  129. K tekhnologii vlasti v tvorchestve i zhiznetvorchestve Akhmatovoi [On the technology of power in Akhmatova’s life and works]. In Lebenskunst–Kunstleben. Zhiznetvorchestvo v russkoi kul’ture XVII-XX v. [Life’s art–artistic life: “Zhiznetvorchestvo” in Russian culture of the 18th–20th centuries]. Ed. Schamma Schahadat. Munich: Otto Sagner, 1998. P. 193-210.
  130. Roman s gonorarom: K teme Babel’ i Sholom-Aleikhem [Romance with an honorarium: Isaac Babel and Sholom Aleichem]. Literaturnoe obozrenie [Literary survey], 264 (1997, 4): 43-54; also in: Oh Jerusalem! Eds. W. Moskovich, W. Schwarzband, G. dell’Agata, S. Garzonio. Pisa–Jerusalem, 1999: 255-278.
  131. Zoshchenko i Chekhov (sopostavitel’nye zametki) [Zoshchenko and Chekhov (comparative notes)]. In Chekhovskii sbornik, ed. A. P. Chudakov. Moscow: Izd-vo Literaturnogo instituta im. A. M. Gor’kogо, 1999. P. 175-190; in Revue d’Etudes Slaves (special Chekhov issue, guest-ed. by J. Bonamour; forthcoming), and in Book No. 16: 174-187.
  132. ZH/Z-97. In: Moskovsko-tartuskaia semioticheskaia shkola. Istoriia, vospominaniia, razmyshleniia. Ed. S. Iu. Nekliudov. Moscow: Shkola “Iazyki russkoi kul’tury”, 1998. P. 175-209.
  133. Ballada samoobladan’ia: Stikh i smysl v neigauzovskoi “Ballade” Pasternaka [A ballade of self-discipline: Verse and meaning in Pasternak’s Neuhaus “Ballade”]. Die Welt der Slaven 16 (1999): 1-26, and in Book No. 19: 502-522.
  134. Kniga knig Pasternaka: K 75-letiiu “Sestry moei–zhizni” [Pasternak’s book of books: The 75-th anniversary of My Sister–Life]. Zvezda [Star], 1997, 12: 193-214. Another version, “O zaglavnom trope knigi ‘Sestra moia – zhizn’‘” [The Title Trope of the book My Sister–Life] in Stanford Slavic Studies 21 [Poetry and Revolution. Boris Pasternak’s “My Sister Life”. Ed. Lazar Fleishman, 1999]: 26-65, and in Book No. 19: 175-194.
  135. Roman Osipovich Jakobson: Iz memuarnykh zametok [Roman Jakobson: Memoir notes]. Roman Jakobson: Texts, Documents, Studies. Eds. Henryk Baran, Sergej Gindin, Elena Shumilova. Moscow: RGGU, 1999. P. 269-278; and in Book No. 17: 192-203.
  136. Pushkin Under Our Skin. Alexander Pushkin: A Celebration of Russia’s Best-loved Writer. Ed. A. D. P. Briggs. London: Hazar Publishing, 1999. P. 189-196.
  137. O neiasnoi iasnosti: Logotsentricheskie zametki na poliakh stikhotvoreniia Mandel’shtama “Ne sravnivai: zhivushchii nesravnim…” [On Unclear clarity: Logocentric marginalia to Mandelstam’s poem “Do not compare: a living one is incomparable…”]. Zvezda [The Star] 1999, 2: 177-191. A shorter version, “Klavishnye progulki bez podorozhnoi“. Zapiski Mandel’shtamovskogo obshchestva. Sokhrani moiu rech’. Publikatsii, stat’i [Notes of the Mandelstam Society. Keep my speech. Publications, essays], 3/1. Eds. O. Lekmanov et al. Moscow, 2000. P. 160-184, and in Book No. 19: 83-99.
  138. K pereosmysleniiu kanona: sovetskie klassiki-nonkonformisty v postsovetskoi perspektive [Rethinking the canon: Non-conformist Soviet classics in post-Soviet perspective], Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New literary survey] 29 (1998) 29: 55-68, and in Book No. 19: 351-368. An English version in the Russian Culture at the Crossroads: Art and Society. Introduced and edited by Dmitri N. Shalin (UNLV: CDC Publications, 2005).
  139. Iz memuarnykh zametok [From memoiristic notes]. Neprikosnovennyi zapas: Ocherki nravov kul’turnogo soobshchetsva [Private stock: Notes on Intellectuals], 1998, 2: 79-82; 1999, 1 [3]: 77-81; 2 [4]: 85-89; 3 [5]: 91-94.
  140. Predislovie k kn.: Mark Freidkin. Opyty [Foreword to: Mark Freidkin. Essays]. Moscow: Carte Blanche, 1994.
  141. Pamiati Viktora Iul’evicha Rozentsveiga [In memory of V. Iu. Rozentsveig], with Vl. Uspensky et al. [NTI, ser. 2: Informatsionnye protsessy i sistemy [NTI, ser. 2: Information Processes and Systems] 1999, 6: 33-39.
  142. “Ia besporiadkov ne narushaiu”: Zoshchenko i vlast’ [“I don’t violate disorders”: Zoshchenko and authority], in Book 16: 58-79; Zoscenko: Medecine et pouvoir [Zoshchenko: Medicine and power]. Revue des Etudes Slaves (special issue on the Serapion Brothers, ed. E. Etkind) 71 (1999), 3: 571-583.
  143. The obverse of Stalinism: Akhmatova’s self-serving charisma of Selflessness. Self and Story in Russian History, ed. by Laura Engelstein and Stephanie Sandler, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000: 46-68.
  144. Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Shadow Operas. Russian Literature and the Other Arts. Ed. Catriona Kelly and Stephen Lovell. Cambridge University Press , 2000: 119-146.
  145. Ochnye stavki s vlastitelem: Iz istorii odnoi “pushkinskoi” paradigmy [Eye-to-eye with Power Figures: From the History of a “Pushkinian” Paradigm]. Pushkinskaia konferentsia v Stenforde. 1999. Materialy i issledovaniia. Eds. David M. Bethea, A. L. Ospovat, N. G. Okhotin, L. S. Fleishman. M: OGI, 2001. P. 366-401.
  146. The Power of Grammar and Grammar of Power in the Childhood Scenes of Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible. Eisenstein at 100: A Reconsideration. Eds. Al LaValley and Barry P. Scherr. New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers UP. P. 253-267.
  147. Iz memuarnykh vin’etok [From memoiristic vignettes]. Zvezda [The Star], 2000, 3: 163-184, 4: 190-209. An unauthorized translation (website: Gor’kii): “From Memoir Vignettes”. Zvezda [The Star], 2000, vol. 3; vol. 4.
  148. Brodskii i infinitivvnoe pis’mo (Materialy k teme) [Brodsky and infinitive writing (Preliminary materials)]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New literary survey], 2000, 45: 187-198. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  149. K probleme infinitivnoi poezii (Ob intertekstual’nom fone “Ustroit’sia na avtobazu…”‘ S. Gandlevskogo) [On infinitive poetry (A propos the intertextual background of S. Gandlevskii’s “To get a job as a trucker…”]). Izvestiia RAN, Seriia Literatury i Iazyka [Communications of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Literary and Linguistic series], 61 (2002), 1: 34-42, also in Book 23 (Novaia i noveishaia russkaia poeziia): 213-232.
  150. Telega na slavistiku [Trashing of Slavic studies]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New literary survey], 2001, 47: 340-345. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.“
  151. Byt’ ili ne byt’ Bogom: K paradoksam avtorskoi vlasti u Dostoevskogo [To be or not to be God: On paradoxes of authorial power in Dostoevsky]. Paradoksy russkoi literatury [Paradoxes of Russian Literature]. Ed. by Wolf Schmid and Vladimir Markovich. St.-Petersburg: Inapress, 2001. P. 234-247; also in book # 26 Ochnye stavki…, pp. 146-159; a revised English version of # 193.
  152. Dve obez’iany, bochki zlata… [Two monkeys, barrels of gold…]. Zvezda [The Star], 2001, 10: 202-214.
  153. Poem, Problem, Prank. The Nabokovian 47 (Fall 2001): 19-28. Russian version in: Imperiia. Naboklov i nasledniki. Sbornik statei [Empire N: Nabokov and Heirs. A Collection of Essays], ed. By Iurii Leving, and Evgenii Soshkin, Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2006. P. 429-441.
  154. Novye vin’etki [New vignettes]. Zvezda [The Star], 2002, 1: 155-179.
  155. Infinitivnoe pis’mo: Tropy i siuzhety (Materialy k teme) [Infinitive Writing: Tropes and Plots (Preliminary Materials)]. Etkindovskie chteniya. I: Sbornik statei po materialam Chtenii pamyati E.G.Etkinda (27-29 iiunia 2000). Eds. P.L. Vakhtina, A.A. Dolinin, B.A. Kats i dr. SPb.: The European University at St.-Petersburg, 2003. P. 250-271.
  156. Dve versii strakha: Akhmatova i Zoshchenko [Two versions of fear: Akhmatova and Zoshchenko]. Semiotika strakha [Semiotics of fear]. Ed. by Nora Buhks and Francis Conte. Moscow: Russkii Institut, “Evropa”, 2005. P. 249-260.
  157. Poetry of Grammar or Pragmatics of Poetry? (Confessions of a Compulsive Conservative). Paper at the Symposium Between History and System: Slavic Theory Today, at Yale University, March 1-2, 2002.
  158. Russkoe infinitivnoe pis’mo i kitaiskaia klassicheskaia poeziia [co-au. I. S. Smirnov; Infinitive Writing and Classical Chinese Poetry]. Lotmanovskii sbornik. 3. [The Lotman Series. 3]. Eds. L. N. Kiseleva, R. G. Leibov, T. N. Fraiman. Moscow: OGI, 2004. P. 674-695.
  159. Ob infinitivnom pis’me Shershenevicha [Vadim Shershenevich’s Infinitive Writing]. Russkii iazyk v nauchnom osveshchenii [The Russian Language in Scholarly Light] 6 (2), 2003: 100-117, and in: Russkii imazhinizm: Istoriia, teoriia, praktika [Russian Imaginism: History, theory, practice. Ed. V. A. Drozdkov et al. Мoscow: Linor, 2003. P. 291-305, and in Book No. 19: 444-459.
  160. U istokov pasternakovskoi poetiki: O stikhotvorenii “Raskovannyi golos”. Izvestiia RAN, Seriia Literatury i Iazyka [Communications of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Literary and Linguistic series], 62 (4), 2003: 10-22.
  161. Ob odnom kazuse infinitivnogo pis’ma (Shershenevich – Pasternak – Kushner) [On One Interesting Case of Infinitive Writing (Shershenevich – Pasternak – Kushner)]. Philologica, 2001/02, v. 7, No. 17/18: 261-270.
  162. Piat’ intertekstual’nykh etiduov (s memuarnym predisloviem) [Five Intertextual Pieces (with a Memoiristic Introduction)]. Russian Literature, 2003, vol. 54, No. 1-3.
  163. Infinitivnoe pis’mo i analiz teksta: “Leiklos” Brodskogo [Infinitie Writing and Brodsky’s “Leiklos”]. Poetika iskanii, ili poisk poetiki. Materialy mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii-festivalia “Poeticheskii iazyk rubezha XX-XXI vekov i sovremennye literaturnye strategii” [A Poetics of Search and a Search for a Poetics. Publications from the Conference-Festival “The Poetic Language of the Turn of the 20th-21st Centuries and Modern Literary Strategies”]. Ed. N. A. Fateeva. Moscow: Izd-vo Instituta russkogo jazyka RAN [Institute of the Russian Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2004. P. 132-150 and in Book No. 19: 460-488.
  164. Motat’–Tait’: Ob odnom perevodnom tekste Khodasevicha [To Spin–To Conceal: On a Translated Text by Khodasevich]. In: Etkindovskiie Chteniia. II-III. Sbornik statei po materialam Chtenii pamyati E.G. Etkinda. 2002). Eds. P.L. Vakhtina, A.A. Dolinin, B.A. Kats. In 2 vols. Vol. 1. SPb.: The European University at St.-Petersburg, 2006. Pp. 158-171, and in Book No. 19: 280-191.
  165. Schast’e i prava sub specie infinitivi: “Iz Pindemonti” [Happiness and Rights Sub Specie Infinitivi: Pushkin’s “Iz Pindemonti”]. In: Pushkin i ego sovremenniki” [Pushkin and His Contemporaries]. SPb.: Akademicheskii proekt, 2005, issue 4 (43): 451-473; and in Book No. 19: 432-443.
  166. Gandlevskii, Brodskii, Blok, Tvardovskii. Iz zametok ob infinitivnoi poezii [Gandlevskii, Brodskii, Blok, Tvardovskii. From Notes on Infinitive Poetry]. Zvezda [The Star], 2003, 12: 201-204.
  167. Russkoe infinitivnoe pis’mo na rendez-vous: Fet/ Miusse [Russian Infinitive Writing on a Rendez-vous: Fet/ Musset]. De la littérature russe: mélanges offerts à Michel Aucouturier. Ed. Catherine Depretto. Paris: Institut d’études slaves, 2005. P. 34-49. Also in: Slavianskii stikh. Stikh, iazyk, smysl. VIII. Ed. by A.V. Prokhorov, T.V. Skulacheva. M.: Iazyki slavianskikh kul’tur, 2009. Pp. 132-148.
  168. “Dorozhit on etim znakom — byt’ kak vse ne khochet…” [“He treasures this token — doesn’t want to be like others…”]. Rets. na kn. Eduard Limonov, Stikhotvoreniia. Moscow: Ul’tra. Kul’tura, 2004. 416 s. 3000 ekz. [Review article of Eduard Limonov, Poems]. Kritichsekaia massa [Critical mass], 2004, 1: 35.
  169. Towards a typology of “debut” narratives: Babel, Nabokov and Others: Paper at the conference on The Enigma of Isaac Babel. Stanford University, 29 February-2 March 2004.
  170. Intertekstual’noe potomstvo “Ia vas liubil Pushkina…” [On the intertextual progeny of Pushkin’s poem “I loved you once…”] in Book No. 19: 309-326.
  171. Tema i variatsii (Pasternak/ Okudzhava) [A Theme and Variations (Pasternak/ Okudzhava)]. in Books No. 3 and No. 19: 327-350.
  172. Ob infinitivnykh “Stikhakh uklonista B. Ryzhego” [The infinitive “Verses of the Deviationist B. Ryzhii”], Zvezda [Star], 2005, 12, and also in: Shipovnik: Istoriko-literaturnyi sbornik k 60-letiiu Romana Timenchika [Briar. A Festschrift for Roman Timenchik’s 60th birthday], ed. by Iu. Leving et al., Moscow: Vodolei, 2005, pp. 96-111. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  173. You Don’t Know What You’re Missing. Hermitage Magazine 2006, No. 2:32-33. Russian version.
  174. In Memoram M. L. Gasparov: A Poetic Offering (Ivan Bunin’s “Without Me”; 1916). Paper at the USC Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures Symposium on Recent Books on Russian Poetry dedicated to the memory of M.L. Gasparov, Friday, April 7, 2006; in Toronto Slavic Quarterly, 16. Russian version: Sovershitel’ Gasparov [Gasparov the Accomplisher]. In: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New literary survey], 77 (2006): 39-44.
  175. “Prosypat’sia na rassvete…”: Poetika osvezheniia [Anna Akhmatova’s “To Wake up at Dawn…”: A Poetics of Freshness]. Stikh, iazyk, poeziia. Pamiati M. L. Gasparova. Editorial board Khenrikh Baran et al. Moscow: RGGU, 2006. P. 211-232. Short Russian version.
  176. Otkuda eta Diotima (Zametki o “Lete” Pasternaka) [Whence This Diotima? (Notes on Boris Pasternak’s “Summer”]. Eternity’s Hostage. Selected Papers from the Stanford International Conference on Boris Pasternak, May, 2004. In Honor of Evgeny Pasternak and Elena Pasternak Ed. by Lazar Fleishman. Part I (Stanford Slavic Studies. Vol. 31). Stanford, 2006. P. 239-261. Short Russian version.
  177. Blistaiushchie odezhdy. Ob odnom literaturnom motive [Radiant garments: A literary motif]. Voprosy literatury [Problems of Literature], 2006, 4: 221-136. The beginning of the article – on the site Voprosy literatury. The book version – in monograph No 26 Ochnye stavki s vlastitelem i drugie razbory (see its full PDF version).
  178. Gde konchaetsia filologiia? Osennie zachistki na letnikh territoriiakh [Where Does Philology End? Autumn Cleansing on Summer Territories]. Zvezda [The Star], 2007, 1. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  179. Ramki-obmanki Pasternaka [Boris Pasternak’s trompe-l’oeil frames]. Ermitazh [Hermitage], 2007, 6: 36-37.
  180. Plinii na skameike [Pliny on the bench]. Zvezda [The Star], 2007, 5: 208-216. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.“
  181. Eduard Limonov. 85 stikhotvoirenii iz Arkhiva Aleksandra Zholkovskogo (konets 60-kh — nachalo 70-kh gg.) [Eduard Limonov. 85 poems from the Archive of Alexander Zholkovsky (late 1960s — early 1970s)].
  182. Kak organizovano ”Begstvo” Khodasevicha [How Vladislav Khodasevich’s “Flight” Was Organized], Zvezda [The Star], 2007, 7, pp. 179-194. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.“
  183. Tak i etak Georgiia Ivanova (“Luny nachishschennyi piatak…”) [Georgii Ivanov’s tak and etak (“Moon’s polished nickel…”], Zvezda [Star], 2007, 9: 185-194. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  184. ”Akhmat” Bunina, ili kratkaia grammatika zhelaniia [Ivan Bunin’s “Akhmat”, or A short grammar of desire. Voprosy literatury [Problems of literature], 2007, 4, pp. 310-321. The beginning of the article – on the site Voprosy literatury. The book version – in monograph No 26 Ochnye stavki s vlastitelem i drugie razbory (see its full PDF version).
  185. “Khorosho!”. Vin’etki [“Good!” Vignettes]. Novyi mir [New World], 2007, 9, pp. 78-102.
  186. Anna Akhmatova: scripts, not scriptures [Review Article]. Slavic and East European Journal 40 (1996), 1: 135-141.
  187. “Neuzheli…?” (Olga Sedakova, “Kitaiskoe puteshestvie”, 13) [“Is It Possible…?” (Olga Sedakova’s, “Chinese Journey”, 13)], Zvezda (The Star), 2007, 11: 180-190. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.“
  188. Pri muzyke: “Razryv. 9” i ego intertekstual’nyi akkompanement [In the Presence of Music: Pasternak’s “Break-up. 9” and Its Intertextual Acompaniment]. The Real Life of Pierre Delalande. Studies in Russian and Comparative Literature in Honor of Alexander Dolinin. Stanford Slavic Studies. Ed. by David Bethea et al. (Stanford Slavic Studies 33, 2 vls.), vol. 1: 293-314 and in Book 25: 425-442.
  189. Iz vospominanii (Otmechaia 100-letie L. A. Mazelia) [Marking L. A. Mazel’s Centennial]. Muzykal’naia Akademiia [Academy of Music], 2007, 3, pp. 91-100.
  190. “Pushkinskie mesta” L’va Loseva i ikh okrestnosti [Lev Losev’s “Pushkin places” and their environs]. Zvezda [The Star], 2008, 2: 215-228; also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal”; also in Book 23 (Novaia i noveishaia russkaia poeziia ): 193-212; and in Book: Lifshits/Losev/Loseff: Sbornik pamiati L’va Vladimirovicha Loseva [Lifshits/Losev/Loseff: A Collection of Essays in Memory of Lev Losev]. Eds. Mikhail Gronas and Barry Scherr. Mosocow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2017. P. 242-271.
  191. “V sovershenno pustom sadu…” Eduarda Limonova [Eduard Limonov’s “In a completely empty garden]. Zvezda [The Star], 2008, 4: 225-234. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal.“
  192. Infinitivy sub specie d’inachevé. Zametki k teme “poetika Tiutcheva”(I) [Infinitives sub specie d’inachevé. Notes on the subject “Tiutchev’s poetics”. I]. I vremia i mesto: istoriko-filologicheskii sbornik k shestidesiatiletiiu Aleksandra L’vovicha Ospovata [‘Tis Both the Time and the Place: A Historical-philological Collection of Essays to Honor the Sixtieth Birthday of Aleksandr L’vovich Ospovat]. Comp. Ronald Vroon et al. Ed. Kirill Rogov, Andrei Nemser. Moscow: Novoe izdatel’stvo, 2008. P. 369-373.
  193. Tikhonov kurtuaznyi [A Courteous Tikhonov]. Zvezda [The Star], 2008, 6: 220–229, also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal“; also in Book 23 (Novaia i noveishaia russkaia poeziia):127-141.
  194. “Krasotka ochen’ moloda…” [“The Beauty is quite young…”]. Inostrannaia litreratura [Foreign Literature], 2008, 6: 252-254.
  195. Eshche raz o malen’koi Khloe Khodasevicha (K analizu “Begtsva”) [More on Vladislav Khodasevich’s litlle Chloe (Understanding “Flight”)]. Russian Literature and the West: A Tribute for David M. Bethea. Eds. Alexander Dolinin, Lazar Fleishman, Leonid Livak. P. II. Stanford Slavic Studies, 35: 80-95.
  196. Gipsovaia desnichka, ili Ne vsiakaia poslovitsa pri vsiakom molvitsa. Filologicheskii sluchai [The Tiny Plaster-of-Paris Hand, or Not Every Proverb Fits Every Company. A Philological Event]. Novyi mir [New World], 2008, 7: 125-132.
  197. Ostorozhno, trenozhnik! Otvet opponentu [Caution: A Tripod! A Response to a Critic]. Russian Journal (30.07.2008) and also in Book No 23 (Ostorozhno, trenozhnik…), pp.  396-406.
  198. Iz zapisok ob infinitivnoi poezii (Problemy opisaniia i obraztsy kommentariev) [Notes on infinitive poetry (Issues in analysis and samples of annotation)]. Iazyk kak materiia smysla. Sbornik stateai k 90-letiiu akademika N. Iu. Shvedovoi. Ed. M. V. Liapon [Languaghe as Meaning’s Matter: Essays in Honor of Academician N. Iu. Shvedova’s 90th Birthday]. Moscow: Azbukovnik, 2007. P. 478-487.
  199. (co-author Lada Panova). Samoubiitsvo kak priem: “Sladko umeret’” Mikhail Kuzmina [Suicide as Technique: Mikhail Kuzmin’s “‘Tis Sweet to Die…”]. Zvezda [The Star], 2008, 10: 191-201; also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal”; also in Book 23, pp. 13-34.
  200. Liubov’ ekspata [An Expatriate’s Love]. Zvezda [The Star], 2008, 11: 198-205. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal.“
  201. Esse [The Essay. An essay]. Inostrannaia Literatura [Foreign Literature], 2008, 12: 233-236.
  202. Malen’kii metatekstual’nyi shedevr Leskova [Nikolai Leskov’s Metatextual Gem], Novoe literatyrnoe obozrenie [New literary survey], 2008, 93: 155-176.
  203. Gore mykat’  [Trouble with “we”]. Zvezda [The Star], 2009, 2: 208-221.
  204. “Iz noveishikh odobrialsia nesomnenno odin Turgenev…” (K teme I. S. Turgenev i N. S. Leskov) [“Of the newest only Ivan Turgenev was approved unconditionally…” (Notes on Ivan Turgenev and Nikolai Leskov]. Na rubezhe dvukh stoletii. Sbornik v chest’ 60-letiia Aleksandra Vasil’evicha Lavrova. Eds. Vs. Bagno, J. Malmstad, M. Malikova. Moscow: NLO, St-Petersburg: IMLI (Pushkinskii Dom) RAN. 2009. P. 266-281.
  205. Effekt babochki. Vin’etki [The Butterfly effect. Vignettes]. Novyi mir [New World], 2009, 2: 96-117; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  206. Poliushko-pole: Eshche raz ob oppozitsii «svoe/chuzhoe» [Field trouble: More on the opposition “one’s own/ other people’s”]. Stengazeta,  02. 26.2009.
  207. Selfless. In Book No. 29 (Ostorozhno, trenozhnik! [Beware: A tripod!]): 142-159, also in the magazine Snob, Dec. 4, 2008; and (under the title: Ob odnoi lakune v leksicheskoi sisteme sovremennogo russkogo iazyka [On a gap in the lexical system of modern Russian]) in Book: Metamorfozy russkoi literatury [Metamorphoses of Russian literature]. Ed. and comp. by K. Ichin. Belgrad: Izd-vo filologich. fakul’teta, 2010, pp. 379-393.
  208. Vybrannye mesta. Tsenton [Selected Passages. A Cento]. Zvezda (The Star), 2009, 4, pp. 84-87.
  209. Dvoinaia spiral’ [Double Helix]. Vin’etki [Vignettes]. Novyi Mir [New World], 2009, 7, pp. 95-122.
  210. Doctor Livingstone, I presume. Stengazeta (02.04.09).
  211. The usual. Stengazeta. 15 May 2009.
  212. Esli by [If…]. Zvezda (The Star), 2009, 6: 219-224. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal.”
  213. Sbrosit’ ili brosit’? [To Throw to Dump or to Throw to Kill?]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New Literary Survey], 2009, 96, pp. 191-211.
  214. Pamyati L’va Loseva. Slova o L’ve Loseve [Remembering Lev Losev]. Zvezda [The Star], 2009, 7, pp. 228-238.
  215. Ierunda [Rubbish]. Zvezda [The Star], 2009, 8: 213-216. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.“
  216. Chekhov, Gorkii i “My” (Iz opyta prepodavaniia russkoi prozy) [Сhekhov, Gorkii and “We” (From lectures on Russian prose]. In Segni. Scritture. Culture. A cura di Sergio Bertolissi, Marina Di Filippo, Roberta Salvatore. Napoli, 2009.
  217. Vlast’ slova: Tema i variatsii [The Power of the Word: A Theme and Variations]. Voprosy literatury [Problems of Literature] 2009, 6: 204-227. The beginning of the article see on the site “Voprosy literatury.” The book version under the title “Scromnoe obaianie russkoi skazki No 421, ili Vlast’ slova” [The descreet charm of the Russian Fairy Tale No 421, or the Power of the Word] – in monograph 26 Ochnye stavki s vlastitelem i drugie razbory (see its full PDF version).
  218. Magiia slova, ili Kto kogo [The Magic of the Word, or Who Wins]. Zvezda [The Star], 2009, 12: 223-225; also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal”; also in Book No. 23 .
  219. Novyi avangard – novaia klassika (Losev, Sedakova, Limonov) [New avant-garde, new classics (Lev Losev, Olga Sedakova, Eduard Limonov)]. Avangard i ideologija: russkie primery [The Avant-garde and Ideology: Russian examples]. Ed. by Korneliia Ichin. Belgrade: Izdanie Filologicheskogo fakul’teta Belgradskogo Universiteta, 2009. P. 685-696.
  220. Iurii Shcheglov. “Medved’” v trekh izmereniiakh. Vstupitel’naia zametka Aleksandra Zholkovskogo [Chekhov’s “The Bear” in three dimensions. Introductory notes by Alexander Zholkovsky]. Zvezda [The Star], 2009, 8: 128-144. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal.“
  221. Pamiati soavtora i druga [In memory of a friend and co-author]. Novoe literaturnoe obozreniie [New literary survey], 2009, 99: 140-143 [In memoriam: Iurii Konstantinovich Shcheglov (26.01.1937 – 6.04. 2009, Madison, USA).
  222. Iskusstvo poezii – 2010 [Ars poetica – 2010]. Novyi mir [The New world] 2010, 2: 149-152. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  223. Luchshe pozdno [Better late]. Chto chitat’ [What to read].
  224. Marginalii k Postscriptum’u Brodskogo [Marginal notes on Joseph Brodsky’s “Postscriptum”]. Zvezda [The Star] 2010, 2: 226-238. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal.“
  225. “Grivennik serebrianyi v karmane…” [A Silver dime in my pocket…]. Lesnaia shkola: Trudy VI Mezhdunarodnoi letnei shkoly na Karel’skom peresheike po russkoi literature [Transactions of the VI International summer school on the Karelian isthmus on Russian literature]. Ed. by A. Kobrinskii et al. Pos. Poliany (Uusikirko) Leningradskoi oblasti, 2010. P. 125-142; also in Book No 26. PP. 76-93.
  226. Eshche raz o mandel’shtamovskom “Lamarke”: Tak kak zhe on sdelan? [Once more on Mandel’shtam’s “Lamarck”: How was it made, after all?]. Voprosy literatury [Problems of literature] 2010, 2: 150-182; also in Book No 26, pp. 367-387.
  227. Uroki ispanskogo [Lessons of Spanish]. Inostrannaia literatura [Foreign literature], 2010, 3: 250-255.
  228. Mezhdu mogiloi i pamiatnikom: Zametki o finale akhmatovskogo “Rekviema” [Between grave and monument: Notes on Anna Akhmatova’s “Requiem”]. Ot Kibirova do Pushkina. Sbornik v chest’ 60-letiia N. A. Bogomolova [From Kibirov to Pushkin. A Collection of Essays to Honor the 60th Birthday of N.A. Bogomolov]. Ed. by A.L. Lavrov, O.A. Lekmanov. Moscow: NLO, 2010. P. 114-142.
  229. Ten’ Groznogo [The Shadow of Ivan the Terrible]. Chto chitat’[What To Read], 4, p. 49-51;also “Groznyi, no ne Terrible” in Book No 30: 485-490.
  230. Odna absoliutno schastlivaia peshchera [One absolutely happy cave]. Zvezda [The Star] 2010, 4: 228-230. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal.“
  231. Domik na Chelsi, ili Tema s Variatsiiami. Zametki filologa [Little House on Chelsea, or A Theme with Variations. Notes of a Philologist]. Novaia Iunost’, 2010, 1; also in Book No. 29: 691-703. Complete Engl. version.
  232. Pantomimy Fazilia Iskandera [Pantomimes by Fazil Iskander]. Zvezda [The Star] 2010, 6: 219-227; also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal”; also in Book No. 26: 322-333.
  233. Sr. SS s R [Cf. “Heart of a Dog” and “A Mermaid”: On links between Mikhail Bulgakov and Arkadii Averchenko]. Toronto Slavic Quarterly, 33: 325-338. PDF-version.
  234. “Vopros: Kto zhe is nikh bolee zhivoi?..” [“Тhe question: Which of the two is more alive…”]. Zvezda [The Star] 2010, 8: 226-229. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal.“
  235. (co-author Lada Panova) PESNI ZHESTY MUZHSKOE ZHENSKOE. K poeticheskoi pragmatike Anny Akhmatovoi (Das Karpalistische Opfer) [SONGS GESTURES MASCULINE FEMININE. On Anna Akhmatova’s Poetic Pragmatics (Das Karpalistische Opfer)]. Ot slov k telu: Sbornik statei k 60-letiiu Iuriia Tsiv’iana. Ed. by A.V. Lavrov et al. Moscow: NLO, 2010. Pp. 50-71. UNCENSORED VERSION! Keywords: AKHMATOVA, BISEXUALITY, CENSORSHIP, ROMAN TIMENCHIK. Also in Book No. 29: 217-241.
  236. Zagadki “Znakov Zodiaka” [The puzzles of Nikolai Zabolotskii’s “The Zodiacal Signs Are Darkening…”]. Short version in: Zvezda [The Star], 2010, 10: 219-230; also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal.” Full version in: N. A. Zabolotskii: pro et contra. Ed. by T. V. Igosheva and I. E. Loshchilov. St.-Petersburg: RKhGA, 2010. Pp. 867-910.
  237. Tak-tak-tak [Ra-ta-ta]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New Literary Survey], 2010, 103: 188-200.
  238. Otdel’nost’, granitsa, razrezhennost’, tsel’nost’. Zametki ob ikonike stikha [Separateness, Boundary, Spacing, Wholeness. Notes on Verse Iconicity]. Zvezda [The Star], 2010, 12: 217-224. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal.”
  239. Infinitive Poetry, Relevance Of Linguistics And Issues In Poetic Analysis. Paper at the AATSEEL 2010/2011 Convention (Pasadena, CA), Panel on “Work in Progress” (Jan. 07, 2011).
  240. Iskander’s Pantomime Narratives. Paper at the AATSEEL 2010/2011 Convention (Pasadena, CA), Panel on “Literary Theatrics: Gestures, Staginess, and Speech” (Jan. 8, 2011). Journal version in: Toronto Slavic Quarterly 35, Winter 2011: 272-282.
  241. More Keys To The Lamarck Puzzle And Related Theoretical Issues. Paper at the ASEEES 2010 Convention (Los Angeles, CA), Panel on “Mandelstam Revisited” (Nov. 20, 2010).
  242. Gorod i lokon. Ob odnoi pushkinskoi miniature [City and Hairlock. On a Pushkin Miniature]. Zvezda [The Star], 2011, 2: 221-230; also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal”. Also in a book: The City and the Lock: Pushkin’s Miniature Lyric. ‘A Convenient Territory:’ Russian Literature at the Edge of Modernity. Essays in Honor of Barry Scherr. Ed. by Michael Gronas and John Kopper. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 2015. P. 67-79.
  243. Prekrasnaia markiza [La Belle Marquise]. Inostrannaia literatura [Foreign Literature], 2011, 2: 231-240; also in Book No. 26: 33-43; expanded version in Book No. 33: 434-452.
  244. O temnykh mestakh teksta: K probleme real’nogo kommentirovaniia [Obscure Passages in Literary Texts: On the Problem of Real Commentary]. Novyi mir [The New world] 2011, 3: 168-179; also in Book No. 29: 18-124. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  245. “Chto eto bylo?” [“What Was It?”]. Zvezda [The Star], 2011, 4: 232–237; also on the site “Ruthenia.ru“; also in Book No. 29: 208-216.
  246. Paradigma kak priem [Paradigm as Techinque]. Zvezda [The Star], 2011, 6: 226–230. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal.”
  247. “Pkhents” na randevu: niu, meniu, dezhaviu [Pkhents on a rendez-vous: nu, menu, deja vu]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New Literary Survey], 2011, 109: 210-228. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.“
  248. “Umri, Denis, luchshe ne napishesh’!…”: Ob odnom dvuiazychnom kalambure (“Live or die, Denis [Fonvizin], you won’t write anything better [than this]!”: On an Unwitting Bilingual Pun [by Chekhov]) [Paradigm as Techinque]. Zvezda [The Star], 2011, 8: 223–228; also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal.” Also in: Smysly, teksty i drugie zakhvatyvaiushchie siuzhety. Sbornik statei v chest’ 80-letiia Igoria Aleksandrovicha Mel’chuka [Meanings, texts, and other exciting things. A Festschfrift to Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of Professor Igor Alexandrovic Mel’cuk]. Ed. Iu. D. Apresyan et al. M: Iazyki slavianskoi kul’tury, 2012 (titled: K lingvisticheskomu osmysleniiu poslednikh slov Chekhova [A Lingustic interpretation of Chekhov’ last words]). P. 696-703 and in Book No. 29: 669-675.
  249. Piatero s ran’shego vremeni: Ob odnom motivnom klastere metasovetskoi literatury [Five old-timers: A motif cluster of meta-Soviet literarture]. Toronto Slavic Quarterly, 37 (summer 2011): 159-172. PDF-version.
  250. O redaktirovanii i redaktorax. Sbornik-antologiya. Vyderzhki iz knig, statei, pisem, rasskazy, fel’etony, parodii [On editing and editors. An anthology. Excerpts from books, articles, letters, stories, feuilletons, parodise]. Sostavitel’ A. E. Mil’chin [Compiled by A. E. Mil’chin]. Moscow: NLO, 2011. P. 189-195, 425-430, 470-471. For the pages on-line see Index of names.
  251. Bender v Tsiurikhe [Ostap Bender in Zuerich]. Zvezda [The Star], 2011, 10: 214–227. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal.“
  252. Edinyi printsip i drugie vin’etki [A single principle and other vignettes]. Novyi mir [The New world] 2011, 10: 99-120. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  253. Fazil’-Amerikanets [Fazil Iskander as an American Writer]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New Literary Survey], 2011, 111: 260-272. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.“
  254. Nedostavavshee zveno [A Missing Link]. Zvezda [The Star], 2011, 12: 218–220. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal.“
  255. Zerkalo ili trel’iazh? [Khodasevich’s Mirror – Regular or Trifold?]. Voprosy literatury [Problems of literature] 2011, 6: 363-387; also in Book No. 29: 186-207 (Full PDF version). Short English version in: Poetry and Poetics: A Centennial Tribute to Kiril Taranovsky. Ed. by Barry P. Scherr, James Bailey and Vida T. Johnson. Bloomington, IN: Slavica. 2014. P. 203-213.
  256. Sakharnitsa Aleksandra Kushnera [Alexander Kushner’s “Sugar Bowl”]. Bol’shoi gorod [Big City], 22 (288), 14.12.11, p. 38-40. Revised full version in Zvezda [The Star], 2012, 10: 223–234; also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal“; also in Book No. 29: 256-275.
  257. Must be luv… O drugom [Re: Other]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New Literary Survey], 2011, 11. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal” – (1), (2). Also in book No 30: 503-507.
  258. “Chtob fraze ruk ne otorvalo…”: Matrosskii tanets Pasternaka [“So it wouldn’t cut off the sailor’s arms…”: Boris Pasternak’s poem “A Sailor in Moscow”]. Zvezda [The Star], 2012, 2: 215–228; also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal”; also in Book No. 29: 11-30.
  259. Pushkin v roli Trike v roli Pushkina [Pushkin as Triquet in the role of Pushkin] in Book No. 26: 53-67. Short version: Trike, Pushkin i Rossini (k probleme tekstovykh i strukturnykh zaimstvovanii) [Triquet, Pushkin and Rossini: the problem of textual and structural borrowings]. Dialog kul’tur: “Ital’ianskii tekst” v russkoi literature i “russkii tekst” v ital’ianskoi literature: Materialy  mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii (Institut russkogo iazyka im. V.V. Vinogradova RAN, 9-11 iiunia 2011 g. [Dialogue of Cultures: The “Italian Text” in Russian Literature and the “Russian Text” in “Italian Literature”:  Papers from an International Scholarly Conference (The V.V. Vinogradov Institute of the Russian Language of the RAS, 9-11 June, 2013]. Ed. by N.A. Fateeva. Moscow: Infotex, 2013. P. 26-34.
  260. Sokhrani moiu rech’, — i ia primu tebia, kak upriazh’, ili Mandel’shtam i Pasternak v 1931 godu [Preserve My Speech… — And I’ll Accept you as Harness: Mandel’shtam and Pasternak in the Year 1931]. Zvezda [The Star], 2012, 4: 226–235; also on the site “Zhurnal’nui zal”; also in Book No. 29: 242-255; and in: Korni, Pobegi, Stvoly: Mandel’shtamovskie dni v Varshave. Sbornik statei [Roots, Sprouts, Trunks: The Mandelstam Days in Warsaw. A Collection of Eassays]. Ed. By Irina Surat et al. Moscow: RGGU, 2015.Vol. 2: 411-431.
  261. Vremya, den’gi i sekrety avtorstva v “Krotkoi” Dostoevskogo [Time, Money and Secrets of Authorship in Dostoevsky’s “Gentle Spirit”]. Toronto Slavic Quarterly (TSQ), 40: 23-56. Short version: Oktiabr‘ [October] 2013, 5: 183-189; also in Book No. 29: 155-166. English version.
  262. Predislovie [Introduction]. Book No 27: 5-12.
  263. Pravil’nye nitochki. Filologicheskii etiud [The Right Little Threads. A Philological Essay]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New Literary Survey], 2012, 115: 215-223; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal”; also in Book No. 29: 704-714.
  264. The Red and the Gray. Lydia Ginzburg’s Alternative Literary Identities. A Collection of Articles and New Translations. Eds. Emily Van Buskirk and Andrei Zorin. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012. Pp. 27-37. Russain version: “Krasnoe i chernoe,” Stengazeta, 4 February, 2010. Also in Book 24: 104-114.
  265. Poetics Today: Some Burning Issues. Keynote Lecture at AATSEEL-Wisconsin Conference, 12-13 October 2012. University of Madison-Wisconsin. Pyle Center, Room 335, Friday 12 October 2012, 4:00 pm.
  266. Chelovek na chasakh Leskova: vertikal’ smysla [Nikolai Leskov’s “Man on Sentry Duty”: Hierarchy and Narrative]. In Book 26: 196-213, and in: From Medieval Russian Culture to Modernism. Studies in Honor of Ronald Vroon. Eds. Lazar Fleishman et al. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag. P. 129-150.
  267. Byt’ znamenitym… [To Be Famous…]. Zvezda [The Star], 2012, 11: 212–217; also on the site “Zhirnal’nyi zal”; also in Book No. 29: 723-730.
  268. “Tolstovskie” stranitsy ital’ianskogo romana Stendalia (K ostraneniiu voiny v “Parmskoi obiteli” i “Voine i mire”) [The “Tolstoyan” pages of Stendhal’s Italian novel: On the defamiliarization of war in The Charterhouse of Parma and War and Peace]. Venok: Studia slavica Stefano Garzonio sexagenario oblata. In Honor of Stefano Garzonio. Eds. Guido Carpi, Lazar Fleishman, Bianca Sulpasso. Stanford, 2012. Part I. P. 198-220.
  269. Themes, Structure, and Intertexts in Mikhail Kuzmin’s Infinitive Poem “Sweet Is It To Die…”. The Many Facets of Mikhail Kuzmin. A Miscellany. Ed. by Lada Panova with Sarah Pratt. Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica, 2011. P. 27-42.
  270. Zagrobnoe stikhotvorenie Bunina <“Bez menia”> [Ivan Bunin’s posthumous poem], in Book 23 (Novaia i noveishaia russkaia poeziia): 53-55.
  271. “Mne ni k chemu odicherskie rati…”: K tainam remesla Anny Akhmatovoi [“I have no use for odic formations…”: On Anna Akhmatova’s secrets of craftsmanship] in Book 23 (Novaia i noveishaia russkaia poeziia ): 72–81.
  272. Liubovnaia lodka, upriazh’ dlia Pegasa i pokhoronnaia kolybel’naia: Tri stikhotvoreniia i tri perioda Pasternaka [A love boat, a harness for Pegasus and a funereal lullaby: Three poems and three periods of Boris Pastenak]. In Book 7 (Mir avtora…): 85-117, and also in Book 23 (Novaia i noveishaia russkaia poeziia): 83-112.
  273. Pitsunda-57, dalee vezde [Pitsunda-57, with all stops down the line]. Novyi mir [The New world] 2012, 12: 8-27.
  274. Puk nezabudok [A Bunch/Fart of Forget-me-nots]. Zvezda [The Star], 2013, 2: 223–234; also on the site “Zhirnal’nyi zal”; also in Book No. 29: 167-85.
  275. “Na kholmax Gruzii lezhit nochnaia mgla…”: Vosem’ strok o svoistvakh strasti i besstrastiia [“On the Hills of Georgia Nocturnal Darkness Lies…”: Eight Lines on the Properties of Passion and Impassivity]. Zvezda [The Star], 2013, 4: 222–230; also on the site “Zhirnal’nyi zal”; also in Book No. 29: 155-166.
  276. O Sharikove [About Sharikov]. In Book No. 26, p. 247-267 (an expanded version of № 104 that includes № 233).
  277. Ia-4242-zh-m-zh-m, ili formal’nye kliuchi k “Matrosu v Moskve” Pasternaka [4242-f-m-f-m Iambs, or Some Formal Keys to Boris Pasternak’s “A Sailor in Moscow”]. (Ne)muzykal’noe prinoshenie, ili Allegro affettuoso. Sbornik statei k 65-letiiu Borisa Aronovicha Katsa. Ed. by A. Dolinin, I. Doronchenkov, L. Kovnatskaia, N. Mazur [An (Un)Musical Offering, or Allegro affettuoso. Collection of Essays To Honor Boris Aronovich Kats on his 65-th Birthday]. SPb.: Izd-vo Evropeiskogo Un-ta v Sankt-Peterburge [The European University at St.-Peretsburg Press], 2013. P. 451-476; also in Book No. 29: 31-58.
  278. Acceptance speech at the awarding ceremony of the literary prize “Bella” (Russian and Italian versions; Italian translation by Giulia Zangoli).
  279. Grammatika prostoty (“Liubit’ inykh – tiazhelyi krest…”) [A Grammar of  Simplicity (“To Love Others Is a Heavy Cross…”)]. Zvezda [The Star], 2013, 8: 219-227; also on the site “Zhirnal’nyi zal”; also in Book No. 29: 79-92.
  280. Kliuchi schast’ia [Key to Happiness]. Novyi mir [New World], 8: 179-193; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal“; in Book No. 29: 276-300.
  281. Vin’etist. Interv’u Maksimu Semeliaku [The Vignettist. An Interview given to Maksim Semeliak]. The Prime Russian Magazine, 2013, 5 (20): 1-18.
  282. Sekrety “Etoi svin’i Morena” [Secrets of “That Pig of a Morin]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New Literary Survey], 122: 179—197; also in Book No. 29: 386-410. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  283. Varvary u vorot [Barbarians at the Gate]. Deviataia mezhdunarodnaia shkola po russkoi literature. Stat’i i materialy [Ninth International School on Russian Literature]. Ed. A. Kobrinskii. SPb. & Tsvelodubovo Leningr. obl., 2013. P. 68-76; also in Book No. 29: 715-722.
  284. Evgenii Borisovich [Evgeny Borisovich Pasternak]. Ob’iat’e v tysiachu okhvatov. Sbornik, posviashchennyi pamiati E.B. Pasternaka i ego 90-letiiu [Embrace the Size of a Thousand. Essays to Honour the Memeory E. B. Pasternak and His 90th Birthday. Ed. by A. Iu. Sergeeva-Kliatis and O. A. Lekmanov. SPb.: Izdatel’stvo Russkoi khristianskoi gumanitarnoi akademii, 2013. P. 81-89.
  285. Naprimer, tshchetnost’ usilii [For instance, the futility of efforts]. Zvezda [Star], 2013, 12: 213-223; also on the site “Zhirnal’nyi zal”; also in Book No. 29: 569-584.
  286. Iubka i drugie vin’etki [The Skirt and Other Vignettes]. Novy mir [New World], 2013, 12: 90-107. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  287. Tsifrovoi kaif [A Digital High]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New Literary Survey], 124 (2013, 6): 212-223 (problems with illustrations); also in Book No. 29: 731-744 (black and white illustrations). A Word document, with illustrations in color.
  288. Prinuzhdenie k ulybke [Smile Enforcement]. The Prime Russian Magazine, 2013, 6 (21): 1-18; also in book 30, p. 508-522 (these are the correct pages!); see PDF.
  289. Tri pereklichki mezhdu ”Doktorom Zhivago” i stikhami do 1940 goda [Three interplays between Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and his poems from before 1940]. Voprosy literatury [Problems of literature], 2014, 1: 350-359. Also in Book No. 29: 144-152.
  290. Pamiati Marka Freidkina – pevtsa, poeta, prozaika, perevodchika [In memory of Mark Freidkin – chansonnier, poet, prose writer, translator]. Novaya gazeta. Kul’tura, 7.03.2014.
  291. Tri zametki o L’ve Tolstom [Three Essays on Leo Tolstoy]. IV Mezhdunarodnyi simpozium “Russkaia slovesnost’ v mirovom kul’turnom kontekste” [The 4th International symposium “Russian literature in global cultural context”]. Ed. by Igor Volgin. Moscow: The Dostoevsky Foundation. 2013. P. 42-51.
  292. Zametki ob ikonike: legkost’, medlennost’, vypriamlenie… [Notes on Iconicity: Lightness, Slowness, Straightening…]. Zvezda [The Star], 2014, 4: 227-233. Also on the site “Zhirnal’nyi zal.”
  293. Michelle Boston. Writing on Russia: Slavic languages and literatures professors Marcus Levitt and Alexander Zholkovsky are honored for their critical work examining Russian culture and literature. In: USC Dornsife College of Arts and Sciences News [online], April 21, 2014.
  294. Katalogi [Catalogues]. Zvezda [The Star], 2014, 6: 223-234; also on the site “Zhirnal’nyi zal”; also in Book No. 29: 585-666. Full version of the article. Engl. version: Listomania, or Catalog as Technique. With examples from poetry and prose, classical and modern, Western and Russian. An invited lecture at UC Berkeley, Monday March 31, 2014; also in: Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2018, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Studies in Cultural Semantics And Pragmatics: For Anna Wierzbicka’s Anniversary). Pp. 945—965.
  295. O porche nekrologov [About Damage To Obituaries]. Novaia Gazeta [The New Gazette], 46, 28 April, 2014.
  296. “Groza, momental’naia navek…”: tsait-lupa i drugie effekty [“Storm, Instantaneous Forever…”: Time-Lens and Other Effects]. Toronto Slavic Quarterly, 2014, 48: 290-310; also in Book No. 29: 59-78. PDF-version.
  297. V proshedshem vremeni… [In a Past Tense]. “Eto vse o nei…”. Sbornik pamiati Tat’iany Tikhonovoi [“It’s All About Her…” A Collection of Essays in Memory of Tat’iana Tikhonova]. Eds. I. Goriunova, O. Sul’chinskaia. Moscow: Russkii Gulliver, 2014. P. 33-35.
  298. “Protiv vetra” i drugie vin’etki [“Against the wind” and other vignettes]. Zvezda [The Star], 2014, 9: 6-21. Also on the site “Zhirnal’nyi zal.”
  299. Podrazhateli [Imitators]. Zvezda [The Star], 2014, 10: 220-232; also on the site “Zhirnal’nyi zal”. Full version: Belaia kliacha sud’by, rytsar’ Galeot i nauka strasti nezhnoi (Esche raz ob intertekstakh k “Giui de Mopassanu” I. Babelia) [The White Mare of My Fate, the Knight Galeot and the Art of Tender Passion (More on the Intertexts to “Guy de Maupassant” by Isaac Babel)].  Isaak Babel v istoricheskom i literaturnom kontekste: ХХI vek [Isaac Babel in a Historical and Literary Сontext in the ХХI Сentury]. Ed. and comp. by E.I. Pogorel’skaia. Moscow: Knizhniki, 2016. P. 204-231.
  300. “V nekotorom tsarstve”: povestvovatel’nyi tour de force Bunina [“In a certain kingdom”: Ivan Bunin’s narrative tour de force]. Toronto Slavic Quarterly, 2014, 50: 147-166. Also in Book No 31: 81-94.
  301. Eshche raz o grammatike liubvi [More on the grammar love]. Zvezda [The Star], 2014, 12: 220-225. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal”.
  302. «Vo vsem mne khochetsia doiti…» Pasternaka (1956): dialektika suti [Boris Pasternak’s “In Everything I Want To Reach The Very Essence” (1956): The Dialiectic of Essence]. Russko-frantsuzskii razgovornik, ili / ou Les Causeries du 7 Septembre: Sbornik v chest’ V. A. Mil’chinoi [A Russian-French Phrase Book or / ou Les Causeries du 7 Septembre: Essays in Honor of V. A. Mil’china]. Ed. by. E. Liamina and O. Lekmanov. Мoscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2015. P. 452-469; and in Book No. 29 (Poetika za chainym stolom...): 125-143.
  303. The Gift [A memoiristic vignette]. Transl. by John E. Bowlt. The Institute of Modern Russian Culture At Blue Lagoon Newsletter 69 (February 2015), pp. 1-4. Russian version: Dar. Stengazeta. 25 December 2014.
  304. “Ulitsa Dante.” Topographiia, toponimika i topika parizhskoi novelly Babelia [Dante Street”: The Topography, Toponymy and Topoi of Isaak Babel’s Parisian Short Story]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. 2014, 6 (130): 216-230; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.” Also in the book: Isaak Babel. Dante Street. A short story. The idea of the two-book special edition, layout and illustrations by Aleksei Borusov. Published by Leonid Iuniverg. Articles by Elena Pogorel’skaia and Aleksandr Zholkovsky. Jerusalem: Philobiblon, 2015. Limited edition: 175 copies, 50 of them numbered. Zholkovsky article, Vol. 2: 39-54.
  305. “On Pasternaka perepasternachit…”: o mandel’shtamovskikh “Stansakh” k E.E. Popovoi [He’ll Out-Pastеrnak Pasternak Himself: Osip Mandelstam’s “Stances” to Elikanida Popova]. Zvezda [The Star], 2015, 2: 253-260. Also on the site “Zhirnal’nyi zal.“
  306. “Letnim dnem”: ezopovskii shedevr Fazilia Iskandera [“On a Summer Day”: Fazil Iskander’s Aesopian Masterpiece]. Novy mir [New World], 2015, 4: 166-181; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal“; also in the book: Uslyshat’ os’ zemnuiu. Festschrift for Thomas Langerak on the occasion of his retiremnent. Ed. by Ben Dhooge and Michel de Dobbeleer. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Pegasus (Pegasus Oost-Europese Studies 26). P. 683-708 and in Book No 31: 181-202.
  307. K 80-letiiu A.A. Zalizniaka [For Academician Andrei Zalizniak’s 80th birthday] (On the website http://inslav.ru/zalizniak80/). Four vignettes, read by the author. Video by Christopher Gilman.
  308. Khodasevich “Before the Mirror”. Videolecture in Russian for the educational platform “Arzamas.”
  309. Participation in the film on Andrei Zalizniak’s 80th birthday. Moscow. TV channel “Kul’tura.” April 29, 2015.
  310. Zadachki na pamiat’. Vin’etki [Memory tests. Vignettes]. Novy mir [The New World], 2015, 8: 84-103. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal“.
  311. Semiotika vlasti i vlast’ semiotiki: “Piry Valtasara “ Fazilia Iskandera [The semiotics of power and the power of semiotics: “The ‘Feasts of Belshazzar” by Fazil’ Iskander]. Zvezda [The Star], 2015, 10: 248-261; also on the site “Zhirnal’nyi zal”. Also in Book No. 31: 503-536. Short Russian version – “Teatr vlasti: “Piry Valtasara” Fazilia Iskandera,” Novaia gazeta [The New Gazette] 24.07.2015. Engl. version in SEEJ, 59 (2015), 3: 367–390.
  312. “Kto organizoval vstavanie?”: K atributsii znamenitoi formuly [“Who organized the standing ovation?”: On the attribution of the famous formula]. Znamia [The Banner], 2015, 10: 198-205, also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.” English version: “Who organized the standing ovation?”: Stalin, Akhmatova, and Shakespeare. An Eberhard L. Faber Lecture (Monday, April 25, 4:30 pm, 245 East Pyne, Princeton University). See poster. Also in Book No 31: 375-384.
  313. Kak sdelan loshadinyi mem Chekhova [How Chekhov’s horse meme is made]. Letniaia shkola po russkoi literature [Summer School in Russian Literature],Vol. 11 (2), 2015, 2: 112-134; and in: Nasledie A.P. Skaftymova i aktual’nye problemy izucheniia otechestvennoi dramaturgii i prozy [A.P. Skaftymov’s heritage and the current issues in the study of Russian drama and prose]. Ed. by V.V. Gul’chenko and A.G. Golovacheva. Moscow: The Bakhrushin museum, 2015. P. 220-232; and in Book № 31: 51-62.
  314. “K romanu menia sovershenno ne tianet” [Novels are not my cup of tea]. An interview given to Denis Larionov. Lеchaim, 283 (November 2015): 48-50.
  315. Vizit k staroi dame [A Visit to an Old Lady]. “Posmotrim, kto kogo pereupriamit…”: N.Ia. Mandel’shtam v pis’makh, vospominaniiakh, svidetel’stvakh [“Let’s see who will be more stubborn…” N.Ia. Mandel’shtam in letters, recollections and testimonies]. Compiled by P.M. Nerler. Мoscow: АST, 2015. P. 619-620. Also in Biik No 36: 57-58.
  316. Collaboration and Its Discontents: Pasternak and Mandel’stam in the Nineteen Thirties. Russian Literature 78 (2015), pp. 683-703.
  317. Zagadki martovskoi nochi. Esche raz o stikhotvorenii Pasternaka “Vstrecha” [Enigmas of a March night: More on Boris Pasternal’s poem “An Encounter”]. Zvezda [The Star], 2015, 12: 219-227. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.” Also in book: Gasparov. O nem. Dlia nego [Gasparov. About him. For him]. Ed. by Marina Tarlinskaya with Marina Akimova. Moscow: NLO [New Literary Survey], 2016. P. 667-685.
  318. “Bol’shie slova i malen’kie veschi” [Big words, small things]. Interview with Uldis Tirons. Rigas Laiks [A Riga magazine], Winter 2015-2016, P. 90-99.
  319. Otkrytaia sistema. Pamiati Umberto Eco [The Open Structure. In Memory of Umberto Eco]. Novaia Gazeta [The New Gazette], № 12266, February 19, 2016. Also in Book 36: 143-145.
  320. Samozvanstvo kak priem, ili Perly na grani fola [Imposture as Technique or Brilliant Mots on the verge of Foul]. Zvezda [The Star], 2016, 2: 245-259. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal” and in Book No. 31: 411-433.
  321. Chudesnye vol’nosti v “Muzyke” Borisa Pasternaka [The miraculous liberties in Boris Pasternak’s poem “Music”]. Novy mir [New World], 2016, 3: 186-197; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal” and in Book: Boris Pasternak i Titsian Tabidze: druzhba poetov kak dialog kul’tur. Sbornik po materialam konferentsii [Boris Pasternak and Titian Tabidze: Poets’ friendship as dialogue of cultures. Collection of papers from a conference]. Eds. G. Liutikova and N. Gromova. Moscow: Literaturnyi Muzei, 2016. P. 87-103.
  322. (co-author Yuri Shcheglov) O spatsial’noi strukture detskikh rasskazov L.N. Tolstogo [On the spatial structure of Leo Tolstoy’s children’s stories]. Siuzhetologiia i siuzhetografiia [Plottology and plottography], 2015, 1: 5-16.
  323. Ivan Smurovskii. Posle lyzh. Iz dnevnika zhenshchiny [Ivan Smurovsky. After ski. From a woman’s diary]. Zvezda (The Star), 2010, 4: 110-114, with the allusive note: “I. G. Smurovsky (a pseudonym) is a descendant of the first wave of Russian emigration. He was born in 1937 in Alexandria, Egypt, 8 rue de Constantin, # 9. Attended lectures on Russian literature at Oxford. Graduated in 1959 (M. D.) from the Institute of Balneology and Climatological Medicine, Hanover (BRD). Makes his home in New Zealand; works as a hand at the Hot Springs resort spa, Rotorua Lake, New Zealand.”
  324. Chto Troia vam?..:” K podtekstam mandel’shtamovskoi “Bressonnitsy”[What’s Troy to you?..: On the subtexts of Mandelstam’s “Insomonia”]. Zvezda [The Star], 2016, 4: 250-260. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  325. Gegel’ nenarokom [Hegel Inadvertently]. Zvezda [The Star], 2016, 5: 221-234. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal”; also in Book No. 31: 452-476; and in: Energiia krizisa. Sbornik v chest’ I.P. Smirnova [The Energy of Crisis. A Collection of Essays for Igor’ Smirnov]. Eds. Ilia Kalinin, Corneliia Ichin. Мoscow: NLO [New Literary Survey], 2019. P. 105-130.
  326. Nosorog – se mua [Rhinceros – c’est moi]. Booknik, 05.27. 2016; also in Book No. 31: 537-551; also in Book No. 31: 537-551.
  327. Persefonnaia knizhka [A Percephone Book]. Zvezda [The Star], 2016, 8: 240-255; also in Book No. 31: 477-502. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.“
  328. Slovo i delo [Word and Deed]. Ostrova luibvi BorFeda. Sbornik k 90-letiui Borisa Fedorovicha Egorova [BorFed’s Islands of Love. A Collection of Essays for Boris Fedorovich Egorov’s 90th Birthday]. Ed. by A. Dmitriev and P. Glushakov. SPb.: Rostok, 2016: 391-398.
  329. Kogda by ne Elena… K izucheniui iazykovykh gipogramm poeticheskogo teksta [Were It Not for Elena… On the Study of Linguistic Hypograms of a Poetic Text]. Letniaia shkola po russkoi literature [Summer School on Russian literature]. SPb.: St.-Petersburg Judaica Institute, 2016, 1: 49-70. Full version in Word.
  330. Net slov. K perevodam ‘Pered zerkalom’ Vladislava Khodasevicha [There Are No Words. On Translations of Vladislav Khodasevich’s ‘Before the Mirror’]. Russian Literature, 83-84 (2016): 129-151.
  331. Vopros vybora i drugie vin’etki [A Matter of Choice and Other Vignettes]. Novyi mir [The New world], 2016, 5: 108-125; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.“
  332. Razgadka Gamleta [Figuring out Hamlet]. Inostrannaia literatura [Foreign literature], 2016, 10: 158-173.
  333. O genome “Zmeia Tugarina” A. K. Tolstogo [On the genome of A. K. Tolstoy’s ballad “Zmei Tugarin”]. Zvezda [The Star], 2017, 1: 251-259;  also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal” and in: In Umbra: Demonologiia kak semioticheskaia sistema [Demonology as semiotic system], Issue 6. Мoscow: Indrik, 2017. P. 303-319.
  334. Agu [Goo-goo]. “Fond Novogo mira” [New World Foundation] website. February 16, 2017. Also in: Letniaia shkola po russkoi literature [Russian Literature Summer School], 13 (Spb.: 2017), 1: 84-90.
  335. “Na grani” i drugie vin’etki [“On the Brink” and other vignettes]. Novyi mir [The New world], 2017, 2: 124-147. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  336. Tsoo, ili Kassirsha, obez’iana, dalee vezde [Zoo, or Teller, monkey and so on]. Zvezda [The Star], 2017, 3: 254-259; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  337. “Znakomykh mertvetsov zhivye razgovory…”: Sem’ писем M.L. Gasparova. Publikatsiia i kommentarii А. К. Zholkovskogo [“Live Conversations of the Familiar Dead”: Seven letters from M. L. Gasparov. Published and annotated by A. K. Zholkovsky]. Gasparov. O nem. Dlia nego [Gasparov. About him. For him]. Ed. by Marina Tarlinskaya with Marina Akimova. Moscow, NLO [New Literary Survey], 2016. P. 284-314.
  338. Piat’ vin’etok [Five vignettes.] Gasparov. O nem. Dlia nego [Gasparov. About him. For him]. Ed. by Marina Tarlinskaya with Marina Akimova. Moscow: NLO [New Literary Survey], 2016. P. 410-429.
  339. Silentium. Vin’etka na zlobu filologicheskogo (i ne tol’ko) dnia [Silentium. The vignette in response to current events in philology (and not only)]. Colta.ru, 27 April, 2017. Also in Znamia [The Banner], 2018, 2: 183-185 and on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  340. Quote the Poets Ever More: Micro-Analyzing Intertextual Gems by Anna Akhmatova, Vladislav Khodasevich and Osip Mandel’shtam. Slavic & East European Journal, 61, 1 (Spring 2017): 11-128. Originally: An Ilchester Series Lecture. University of Oxford, June 2, 2016.
  341. Uroki chteniia: dvoinoe pis’mo [Reading lessons: correspondence(s)]. Zvezda [The Star], 2017, 7: 244-256; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.” In: Etkindovskie chteniya VIII, IX: Po materialam konferentsii 2015, 2017 gg. “Tam vnutri”, “Svoe chuzhoe slovo” [Etkind Colloquia VIII, IX: Collection of Papers from 2015 and 2017 Conferences “In There” & “One’s Own/ Other People’s Word”]. Comp. and ed. by V.Е. Bagno, М.Е. Etkind. Мoscow: Tsentr knigi Rudomino, 2017. P. 310-355.
  342. “Kezezuppe” i drugie vin’etki [“Kezezuppe” and other vignettes]. Zvezda [The Star], 2017, 8: 7-27; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.“
  343. Between Groys and Gasparov. Dialogic Pedagogy Online Journal, vol. 5 (2017): 16-22.
  344. Poeziia grammatiki i neperevodimost’ (Catullus, 85) [Poetry of Grammar and Untraslatability (Catullus,85)]. M.L. Gasparovu-stikhovedu. In memoriam [To M.L. Gasparov – the Versification Scholar. In memoriam]. Comp. and ed. by Marina Tarlinskaya and Marina Akimova. Мoscow: IASK, 2017. P. 280-288.
  345. “Vmenit’ v brakosochetanie!” [“Implement into wedding!”]. Znamia [The Banner], 2017, 8: 209-213; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.“
  346. Uroki irokezskogo, Catullus, 2 [Lessons of Iroquois: Catullus, 2]. Zvezda [The Star], 2017, 9: 233-246; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  347. V dalekuiu. Vin’etka [A Distant One. Vignette]. Online magazine Literratura, #105 (September 2017).
  348. Pozy, razy, perifrazy. Zametki narratologa [Poses, times, periphrases. Notes of a narratologist]. Zvezda [The Star], 2017, 11: 248-260; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.“
  349. K sebe i ot sebia. Ob odnom liubimom motive [Pull (self-wise) and Push (world-wise): About a favourite motif]. Zvezda [The Star], 2018, 1: 248-259; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  350. “Nauka i zhizn’” i drugie vin’etki [“Science and Life” and other vignettes]. Znamia [The Banner], 2018, 2: 178-194; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.“
  351. Esche dva interteksta k “Bessonnitse…” Mandel’shtama [Mandel’shtam’s “Insomnia”: Two More Intertexts]. Verba volant, scripta manent: Festschrift for the 50th Birthday of Igor Pil’shchikov. Ed. By N. Poseliagin and M. Trunin. MATICA SRPSKA JOURNAL OF SLAVIC STUDIES, 92, 2017. P. 499-528.
  352. O zarazhenii [On Contagion]. Zvezda [The Star], 2018, 3: 248-258; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal” and in Narratorium 2018, № 11, special issue to honor the memory of V. M. Markovich.
  353. Stoikoe obaianie “Dvukh kapitanov” [The Stable Charm of the Two Captains]. Novyi mir [The New world], 2018, 3: 174-192. Also in the book Entsiklopediia “Dvykh kapitanov” [Encyclopedia of Two Captains]: In 2 vls. Vol. 2. Moscow: Politicheskaia ettsiklopediia, 2019. P. 26-61.
  354. O negrammatichnosti. Karamzin, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Brosdky, Limonov [On ungrammaticality: Karamzin, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Brosdky, Limonov]. Zvezda [The Star],  2018, 6: 246-259, and also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.“
  355. Mesto “Vizitnykh kartochek” v eroticheskoi kartoteke Bunina [The place of “Business cards” in Bunin’s erotic card file]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New literary survey], 2018, 2 (150): 164-186, and also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal“.
  356. O neponimanii i drugie vin’etki… [About not understanding and other vignettes]. Noviy mir [The New World], 2018, 6: 74-89.
  357. Poetika mini-shedevra, ili O tom, kak Vasilii Semenovich pomerialsia s Semenom Mikhailovichem [The poetics of a mini-masterpiece, or How Vasilii Semenovich Measured up to Semen Mikhailovich].  Zvezda [The Star], 2018, 9: 246-259. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  358. Kak rabotaet literatura [The Way Literarture Works]. The Arzamas academy. 5 videolectures. See also on youtube.
  359. Russkaia ruletka [Russian Roulette]. Toronto Slavic Quarterly, 66, Fall, 2018.
  360. Podmoskovnye piatioslozhniki [Suburban Moscow Pentons]. Novyi mir [The New World], 2018, 11: 179-189, also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal“. See Addendum.
  361. Ob Andree Anatol’eviche Zalizniake. K godovshchine smerti [Andrei Anatol’evich Zalizniak. On the Occasion of the First Anniversary of his Death]. Colta.ru, 12.24.2018.
  362. Mezhdu Kaverinym i Buninym. Pamiati L’va Loseva [Between Veniamin Kaverin and Ivan Bunin. In Memory of Lev Losev; read only version]. Voprosy literatury [Problems of Literature], 2018, 6: 126-141 [copiable version: click on the left button]. See Addendum. Full version in Book No 36: 186-195.
  363. Nauka, poeziia i pravda: k razboru pesenki Vysotskogo o Kuke [Science, Poetry and Truth: Toward an Analysis of Vladimir Vysotsky’s Song About James Cook]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New literary survey], 2018, 6 (154). P. 222-249. Printable version.
  364. Mukhi, slony i glaza nabliudatelia: O motive “(ne)razlicheniia malogo”  [Of Flies, Elephants and the Eye of the Beholder: On the motif of ‘fine distinctions’]. Zvezda [The Star], 2019, 1: 245-249; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal”. PDF-version.
  365. Vin’etki kak roman vospitaniia [Vignettes as Bildungsroman] // Literatura [Literature], 2019, 1-2 (790), 2019-01-01. P. 54-55. An on-line attachments for subscibers — “Nepedagogicheskaia poema v 27 vin’etkakh” [An Unpedagogical Poem in 27 Vignettes] (p. 1-50) & “O pol’ze vkusa (Chernyshevskii)” [On the Use of Taste (Chernyshevsky)].
  366. Iubileinoe [Anniversarial]. Zvezda [The Star], 2019, 3: 253-260. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  367. Stoikoe obaianie “Dvukh kapitanov”, ili sotsrealism s chelovecheskim litsom [The Stable Charm of The Two Captains, or Socialist Realism with a Human Face]. Entsiklopediia “Dvukh kapitanov” [The Encyclopedia of The Two Captains]. In 2 vls. Vol. 2. Moscow: Politicheskaia entsiklopediia. P. 26-61.
  368. “Kuritsa”: k sekretam poeticheskoi kukhni Semiona Slepakova [“The Stupid Hen”:  Some Secrets of Semen Slepakov’s Poetic Cuisine]. Znamia [The Banner], 2019, 4: 182-190. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  369. “Griadushchei smerti godovshchinu…”. Eshche raz o motive obratnogo shcheta. Zvezda [The Star], 2019, 5: 247-260. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”
  370. Iskusstvo kak podvokh. Vin’etki [Art as Subterfuge. Vignettes]. Novyi Mir [New World], 2019, 7: 78-92.
  371. It’s not about Sex! O rasskaze Zoshсhenko “Lichnaia zhizn’” [It’s not about Sex! Zoshсhenko’s Short Story “Personal Life”]. Zvezda [The Star], 2019, 7: 248-260; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal”; also in: Literaturoman(n)iia. K 90-letiiu Iuriia Vladimirovicha Manna [Literature-man(n)ia. Sbornik statei [A Collection of Essays for Yurii V. Mann’s 90th Birthday]. Ed. by O.V. Fedunina, V.B. Zuseva-Ozkan. M.: RGGU, 2019, 553-572.
  372. Dva rasskaza: “Verevochka”, “Golubaia pantera” [Two Short Stories: “The Little Rope,” “A Blue Panther”]. Znamia [The Banner], 2019, 8: 62-65, 65-68.
  373. Gamlet s pistoletom, ili poetika povelitel’nosti [A Hamlet with a Pistol, or a Poetics of Imrepativemess]. NNovoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New literary survey], 2019, 5: 256-264; also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal”. PDf-version.
  374. “Znakomaia L’vitsa” i drugie vin’etki [“A Lioness We Know” and Other Vignettes]. Zvezda [The Star], 2019, 11: 10-23. PDF-version.
  375. Koroche, byl ia tam [In a Word, I Was There!]. Voprosy literatury [Problems of literature] 2019, 5: 246-256. The online addresses in the text of the article are clickable; a Word-file with images see here.
  376. Razbor trekh razborov. Avtoevristicheskie zametki [Analyzing Three Analyses: Autoheuristic Notes]. Letniaia shkola po russkoi literature [Summer School in Russian Literature], 2019, Vol. 15 (№ 2-3): 312-334. Also in: Kollektiv avtorov. Homo scriptor. Sbornik statei i materialov v chest’ 70-letiia Mikhaila Epshteina /  Sost. M. Lipovetskii  [A Group of Authors. Homo scriptor. A Collection of Essays and Materials in Honor of Mikhail Epshtein’s 70-th Birthday]. Moscow: NLO, 2020. P. 57-68.
  377. “Tekst v tekste”: avtory i chitateli sredi personazhei [“A Text Inside a Text”: Authors and Readers among the Characters]. Zvezda [The Star], 2020, 1: 259-275. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.” PDF-version. Also in book: Territoriia slovesnosti: Sbornik v chest’ professora I.N. Sukhikh [The territory of literature: Essyas to honor the 70th birthday of Professor Igor Nikolaevich Sukhikh]. Ed. by A.D. Stepanov, A.N. Stepanova. St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriia, 2022. P. 9-31.
  378. Motiv akterstva v ezopovskoi poetike Fazilia Iskandera [The Motif of “Play-acting” in Fazil Iskander’s Aesopian Poetics]. Vestnik Literaturnogo Instiuta A.M. Gor’kogo [The Messenger of the A.M. Gorky Literary Institute], 2019, 4: 32-41.
  379. Skreshchen’ia ruk, nog, tropov i drugikh poeticheskikh priemov v “Zimnei nochi” Pasternaka [Intersections/Crossing of Arms, Legs, Tropes and Other Poetic Devices in Boris Pasternak’s “Winter Night”]. Novyi mir [The New World], 2020, 2: 180-184. Workable PDF.
  380. Na sobstvennoi tiage [On one’s own steam]. Zvezda [The Star], 2020, 5: 263-275. Also on the site “Zhurnal’yi zal”. PDF-version.
  381. “Agaf’ia”: “dvukhberezhnyi” shedevr Chekhova [“Agaf’ia”: Anton Chekhov’s “both river-banks” masterpiece]. Znamia [The Banner], 2020, 7: 175-196. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal”. PDF-version.
  382. “Dushechka”: labirint stseplenii [“The Darling”: A Labyrinth of Concatenations]. Novyi mir [The New World], 2020, 9: 172-191. PDF-version.
  383. [co-authored with Lada Panova] Bol’she, chem master: Poetika i pragmatika antistalinskoi epigrammy Mandel’shtama [More Than a Master: The Poetics and Pragmatics of Ossip Mandelstam’s anti-Stalin Epigram]. Zvezda [The Star], 2020, 9: 256-276. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.” PDF-version.
  384. Linguistics and poetics — and some other smoldering issues of literary analysis: An auto-heuristic study. Slavic and East Europen Journal, 64 (2020), 2: 155-177. (Linguistics and Poetics and Some Other Smoldering Issues of Literary Analysis: An (auto)heuristic study.” — Keynote address, AATSEEL, Feb 8, 2020, San Diego, Ca.)
  385. Filii, ili Spor drevnikh i novykh [Philios, or Quarrel of ancients and moderns]. Zvezda [The Star], 2020, 12: 225-230. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.” PDF-version.
  386. Um v tsarstve duraka: “Anton Palych Chekhov odnazhdy zametil…”, ili Poetika nedogovarivaniia [“Folly Controlling Skill”: Bulat Okudzhava’s “Anton Palych Chekhov Once Remarked”, or a Poetics of Understatement], Zvezda [The Star], 2021, 1: 270-281. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.” PDF-version. Also in: Professor, syn professora: Pamiati N.A. Bogomolova  [Professor, a Son of Professor: In memory of N.A. Bogomolov]. Ed by N.A. Bogomolova, O.L. Dovgii, A. Iu. Sergeeva-Klatis. Moscow: Fakul’tet zhurnalistiki MGU; Vodolei, 2022. P. 145-158. PDF-version.
  387. “Serenada” i drugie vin’etki [“A Serenade” and Other Vignettes]. Zvezda [The Star], 2021, 2: 8-20. PDF-version.
  388. O kaprizakh literaturnoi retseptsii [The Whims of Literary Reception]. Zvezda [The Star], 2021, 3: 265-274. PDF-version.
  389. Tiazhelaia poteria [A grave loss]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New literary survey; cluster “In Memoriam: Nikolai Bogomolov, 1950-2020”], 2021, 169: 241-244. Also in: Professor, syn professora: Pamiati N.A. Bogomolova  [Professor, a Son of Professor: In memory of N.A. Bogomolov]. Ed by N.A. Bogomolova, O.L. Dovgii, A. Iu. Sergeeva-Klatis. Moscow: Fakul’tet zhurnalistiki MGU; Vodolei, 2022. P. 31-34. PDF-version.
  390. Kak “sdelan” Vorontsov Pushkina: K strukture epigrammy “Polu-milord, polu-kupets…” [How Pushkin’s “Vorontsov” Was Made (= Done in): The Structure of His “Half-Milord, Half-Merchant…” Epigram]. Zvezda [The Star], 2021, 9: 235-251. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”PDF-version. Also in Book No 38: 12-35.
  391. Kholosio! [Pelfect!]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New literary survey], 2021, 5 (171): 251-264. PDF-version.
  392. Zametki o “poezii agrammatiki” Eduarda Limonova [Notes on Eduard Limonov’s “poetry of ungrammaticality”]. “Lianozovskaia shkola”: Mezhdu barachnoi poeziei i russkim konkretizmom [“The Lianozovo School”: Between a “projects” poetry and a Russian concretism]. Eds. G. Zykova, V. Kulakov, M. Pavlovets. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New literary survey], 2021. S. 638-663.
  393. To Be or Not to Be God: The Issue of Authorial Power in Dostoevsky. Religions (ISSN 2077-1444), Vol. 12, 7 (2021; forthcoming in a paper edition); a revised English version of # 151.
  394. “Mistifikasion?” i drugie vin’etki [“Mystification?” and other vignettes], Novyi mir, 2021, 3: 115-128. On the web site “Gor’kii”. Pdf-version.
  395. O motive lozhnogo vybora [On the motif of false choice]. Zvezda [The Star], 2021, 11: 260-274. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.” PDF-version.
  396. O glav-meta-pesenke Bulata Okudzhavy [On Bulat Okudzhava’s main meta-song]. Voprosy literatury [Problems of literature], 2021, 5: 126-151. PDF-version.
  397. “A my shveitsaru: ‘Otvorite dveri…’ “: K structure netipichnogo teksta Okudzhavy [“So we tell the doorman: ‘Open the doors…’]: On the Structure of Bulat Okudzhava’s atypic text]. Zvezda [The Star], 2022, 1: 259-273. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.” PDF-version.
  398. Seks v ramkakh — 2021 [Sex Framed — 2021] // Зборник Матице српске за славистику, Vol. 2021, No. 100. P. 761-780. PDF-version.
  399. “Fikshn.dok: narochno ne pridumaesh’ ” [Fiction.doc: stranger than fiction]. Paper at XXIX International Iurii Lotman Colloquium, Moscow, RSUH, 25 December 2021. Video version.
  400. “The Poetry of Grammar and Ungrammaticality. Alexander Zholkovsky Interviewed by the editors of Pushkin Review.” Pushkin Review, vol. 22-23, 2020-2021, p. 135-167. “Selected Bibliography of Alexander Zholkovsky’s Works on Pushkin.” Pushkin Review, vol. 22-23, 2020-2021, p. 169-178.
  401. EO, 4, XXVI,13-14 : K poetike kontsovok oneginskoi strofy [Eugene Onegin, 4, XXVVI,13-14 : Towards a Poetics of the Finales of the Onegin stanza]. Zvezda [The Star], 2022, 5: 259-275. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.” PDF-version.
  402. “Chuzoe slovo” i drugie vin’etki [“Someone Else’s Discourse” and other vignettes]. Novyi mir [New world], 2022, 5: 97-106. PDF-version.
  403. Vosem’ mini-razborov. Zametki ob ikonike i skhodnykh effektakh [Eight Mini-Analyses: Notes on Iconicity and Cognate Effects]. Zvezda [The Star], 2022, 7. P. 263-278. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.” PDF-version.
  404. Zametki o dvukh narrativnykh priemakh Bunina: Effekt “voronki” and “avtorskie” personazhi [On Ivan Bunin’s Two Narrative Stratagems: The “Funnel” Effect And The “Authorial” Characters]. Ezhegodnik Doma russkogo zarubezh’ia im. Aleksandra Solzhenitsyna 2021-2022 [The Annual papers of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russian Culture Abroad 2021-2022. Moscow: Dom russkogo zarubezh’ia im. Aleksandra Solzhenitsyna [Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russian Culture Abroad], 2022. P. 31-41.
  405. “Grammatika liubvi” Bunina: sravnitel’no-istoricheskii aspekt [Ivan Bunin’s “A Grammar of Love”: a comparative-historical angle]. Zvezda [The Star], 2022, 9. P. 262-280. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.” PDF-version.
  406. “Podymite mne veki!” i drugie vin’etki [“Lift my eyelids!” and other vignettes]. Zvezda [The Star], 2022, 8. P. 114-128. PDF-version.
  407. Congratulatory speech at the Book Launch of LIFETIME LINGUISTIC INSPIRATIONS: To Igor Mel’čuk from Colleagues and Friends for his 90th Birthday (Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Sonderband 101; Peter Lang, 2022) at the Département de linguistique et de traduction, Université de Montréal 9:00 AM – 12 noon (and via Zoom). Recording (2 hrs. 04 min. – 2 hrs. 12 min.) and text.
  408. Digital High: The Art of Visual Seduction? Arts 2022, 11(5), 97. PDF-version. A revised and espanded English-language version of 287.
  409. Inkluzivnost’, ekskluzivnosti i “my”. Iz zametok o poezii grammatiki [Inclusiveness, exclusiveness and “we”. From notes on the poetry of grammar]. Novyi mir [New World], 2023, 3: 194-211. Same in the “Zhurnal’nyi zal“. PDF-version.
  410. Evg. Evtushenko. Portret neizvestnogo v peizazhe. Ok. 1964. Nabrosok s natury — pero, mocha, brevna, mat, 1-e l., Kh5zhm, 4×10 [Portrait of an Unknown Man. Circa 1964. Sketch from Nature and Surroundings: pen, urine, logs, obscenities, 1st  pers., trochaic pentameter, 4×10]. Zvezda [The Star], 2023, 1. P. 256-273. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.” PDF-version.
  411. K semantike piatistopnogo khoreia. Ob odnom arkhisiuzhete Kh5ZhMZhM [Toward the semantics of trochaic pentameter. On an archiplot in T5fmfm], Voprosy literatury [Problems of literature], 2023, 3: 107-140. PDF-version.
  412. Ai da  Fazil’, ai da Iskander! Vin’etka s primechaniiami [Good for Fazil’, good for Iskander! A Vignette with Footnotes]. Zvezda [The Star], 2023, 7: 263-272. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.” PDF-version.
  413. “Spat’ nad knigoi” i drugie vin’etki s primechaniiami [“To Sleep While Reading the Book” and Other Vignettes with Footnotes]. Zvezda [The Star], 2023, 9: 260-276.
  414. Staroe i novoe: O pesne “Den’ Pobedy” 9 maia Dzhavida Kurbanova i Semena Slepakova [The Old and the New: Re “Victory Day May 8,” a song by Dzhavid Kurbanov and Semen Slepakov]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New literary survey], 2023, 183: 168-193.
  415. O trekh malen’kikh sekretakh znamenitoi “Fedry” Mandel’shtama [Three Minor Secrets of Mandelstam’s Famous “Phaedra”]. Letniaia shkola po russkoi literature [Summer School in Russian Literature], 2023, 19 (3-4): 316-345. PDF-version.
  416. Pamiati Mikhaila Bezrodnogo [In memory of Mikhail Bezrodnyi]. Literaturnyi fact [The Literary Fact], 2023, 30: 333-335. PDF-version.
  417. Pesnia o pesne: metapoeticheskii khit Mikhaila Svetlova “Grenada” (1926) [A song about a song: Mikhail’s Svetlov metapoetic hit “Grenada” (1926)]. Zvezda [The Star], 2024, 1: 257-276. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.”PDF-version.
  418. Kudri, den’gi… bigudi [Curls, money … bigoudi]. A Blue Brick. Festschrift in Honor of John E. Bowlt on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday. Ed. by Yuri Leving. Frankfurt/Main: Esterum Publishing, 2023. P. 253-278.
  419. K intertekstam «Zimnei nochi» Pasternaka: otkuda dva bashmachka? [On the Intertexts of Boris Pasternak’ s  “Winter Night”: Whence  the “two tiny slippers”?]. Sviazuiushchee zveno. Sbornik pamiati Eleny Petrovny Shumilovoi [The Mediating Link. Essays to Honor the Memory of Elena Petrovna Shumilova]. Ed. by H. Baran, E. Zhigarina, S. Zenkin, V. Mil’china. Moscow RGGU (RSUH), 2022. P. 241-251.
  420. “Zabavnoe prikliuchenie” Zoshchenko. Khorosho temperirivannaia plokhopis’ [Mikhail Zoshchenko’s “An Amusing Adventure”. A Well-Tempered Cacography]. Zvezda [The Star], 2024, 5: 259-269. Same in the “Zhurnal’nyi zal.” PDF-version.
  421. «Na somaliiskom fronte» i drugie vin’etki s vostochnym aktsentom [“On the Somali Front” and Other Vignettes with an Oriental Accent]. Tangutskaia i kitaiskaia filologiia. K iubileiu M.V. Sofronova [Tangu and Chinese  Philology/ On the Occasion of  Mikhail Sofronov’s Anniversary] . Moscow, Institut vostokovedeniia RAN [Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS], 2024: 39-78. (Uchenye zapiski Otdela Kitaia Instituta Vostokovedeniia RAN. Vyp. 47 / Redkoll.: A. I. Kobzev i dr. [Scholarly Proceedings of the Department of China, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS. Vol. 47/ Ed. by A. I. Kobzev et al.]).
  422. “A riabchika etogo my raz”iasnim”: Ob odnom epizode chekhovskoi “Poprygun’i” [“And as for the grouse, we’ll look into that later”: reading closely an episode of Chekhov’s “Grasshopper”]. Zvezda [The Star], 7: 256-272. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal.” PDF-version.
  423. “Tonkii shram na liubimoi pope”: K poetike nevol’nogo khita Marka Freidkina [“The fine scar on my beloved butt”: The poetics of Mark Freidkin’s unwitting hit]. Zvezda [The Star], 2024, 9: 260-276. Also on the site “Zhurnal’nyi zal”. PDF-version.
  424. Na kresle otvalias’ — molchu, poteriannyi, ili Feta tonkii karandash [Laid back in my arcmchair — I’m silent, at loss, or: Afanasii Fet’s fine pencil]. Novyi mir [New World], 2024, 10: 189-204. PDF-version.
  425. “Sosny” Pasternaka: Temy, struktury, umolchaniia, fon [Boris Pasternak’s “Pine Trees”: Themes, structures, omissions, background]. Zvezda [The Star], 2024, 11: 261-276. PDF-version.
  426. Mark i Zhora: Zametki o poezii grammatiki i perevode [Mark and Zhora: Notes on translation and the poetry of grammar]. Inostrannaia litreratura [Foreign Literature], 2024, 11: 251-267. PDF-version.