Mor [Anonymous]

[Russian] [Noise] [War]

Mor

Anonymous

Monday Press, Denmark. 2025. New.

From the publisher:

"In March 2022, here at Monday Press, we began receiving long emails from an anonymous account belonging to someone we barely knew. These letters were sent from deep underground—so deep that we weren’t even sure if it was safe to reply. They told an insider’s story of a world in the process of being erased: the anxiety, the fear, and the longing for something that was vanishing right before the author's eyes. Over the course of a year, we received four letters and a series of photographs (taken by someone else). The author of the letters is now in a safe place but prefers to remain anonymous.

The book describes the Russian noise underground in the first year of the war. It's a devastating read, raw, excessive, hyper-existential, intimate, edge of the world, anti-war, written from the inside."

Regardless of your opinions on the war, the stifling of Russian culture in America has always struck me as a farce. There is great art and great people there, and the vilification of an entire nation always has the same results. This is a fascinating work that I am proud to carry. Details are scant on it's origin, but the story laid out here lets you see through the keyhole into a world being kept far away from you.