Posthuman Blues

Perhaps the biggest benefit reaped by the fall of communism in the former Soviet Union is the metamorphosed Pravda, which routinely features cutting-edge investigative journalism. Take the following story . . .

Boriska-boy from Mars

"The little boy with gigantic lively eyes was about to tell a magnificent story about the Martian civilization, about megalithic cities, their spaceships and flights to various planets, about a wonderful country Lemuria, life of which he knew in details since he happened to descend there from Mars, had friends there."

The beauty of Pravda is that it has yet to become stale and self-aware like, for instance, Weekly World News. The pages of Pravda are infused with an endearing naivete; for all of the typos and blatant style errors, there's at least some heart driving Pravda, which is more than you can say for its grown-up American cousin.