Learn more about Issac Babel | Here are a few good places to start –

• Finding Babel – 2015 documentary Finding Babel by David Novak & Roger Waters; website includes a biographical sketch and preview to the documentary: findingbabel.com
• ‘Hide-and-Seek’ | The New Yorker – Author John Updike gives a short synopsis of Babel’s life & writing, and provides an overview of The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, edited by Babel’s daughter, Nathalie: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/11/05/hide-and-seek-2
• ‘Saunders on Babel, Prose Poet of the Grotesque’ (26 May 2006) NPR Books – Author George Saunders tells Chris Lehmann why Babel’s Collected Stories is a book that he urges all of his friends to read. Interview, plus an excerpt of Babel’s “The Story of My Dovecote”; online via NPR: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5432052
• ‘The Horror, The Horror’ (8 February 2018) The New York Review of Books – Article by Gary Saul Morson: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/02/08/isaac-babel-horror-the-horror/
• ‘How My Grandmother Met My Grandfather, Isaac Babel’ (2013) Yiddish Book Center – Babel’s grandson, Andrei Malaev-Babel, talks about his grandmother and the Babel’s courtship (video – 5:36) via Yiddish Book Center & YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zDzlhmmwGU
• Checklist of the works of Isaak Babel – Compiled by Efraim Sicher, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; includes list of known work in original Russian and translations: https://web.stanford.edu/~gfreidin/Publications/babel/BABEL2.pdf
• ‘Prominent Russians: Isaac Babel’ | Russiapedia – Government-sponsored Russia Today (RT) puts some serious spin on what they describe as ‘myths’ that Babel “created around himself,” including the portions of his autobiography that detail his persecutation by the Soviet secret police. Never mind that Babel was executed in 1939. Modern propaganda 101: http://russiapedia.rt.com/prominent-russians/literature/isaac-babel/

• Image credit: BABEL, Isaak (date unkn.) “Isaak Babel, Russian Journalist & Author (1894-1940) Author: Unknown [Wiki has author listed as “имя фотографа мне неизвестно” – or (roughly), [“I don’t know the name of the author”], Source: фотография из архива моего отца скульптора Нарузецкого [archive of sculptor Naruzetskogo (?)], Licence Art Libre – OK to redistribute and/or modify per tems of Free Art License, posted September 2010; online via Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Babel_photo01.jpg [Repeat Right edit: background, size & clarity]