A. R. Sherbatov

As a student at Columbia University and part-time resident of Baltimore, A. R. Sherbatov is used to things collapsing around him. Sherbatov's writing has been shortlisted by Room Magazine. He is currently obsessing over Soviet history and procrastinating finishing a run of Disco Elysium. Find this man on X and Substack, or on the streets of Manhattan wearing beige trench coats in 90-degree weather.


Selected Essays

Review of Anne Waldman's Archivist Scissors | The Columbia Review

Zinaida Gippius’ queer allegories: Trans mermaids in Russian literature | Archer Magazine

Wasteland Motherland: the complicated roots of the "Russia doomer" | Troika Journal

Growing Up Green: the myth of Israel's 'heroic environmentalism' | Overland Literary Journal


Selected (auto)Fiction

Sunoco | underscore_magazine

15 (notes on corruption) | Bitter Melon Review


Selected Poetry

it's best we not speak anymore | Zaum Magazine

free time | Zine Club NYC