Only so many laughs …

… Fiction review: ‘Fardwor, Russia!,’ by Oleg Kashin | Dallas Morning News.

The unusual title, with its intentional misspelling of “forward,” twists what is instantly recognizable as a patriotic slogan in Russia.It is the type of mistake a young child or a person with a learning disability might make, and about as blunt an expression of withering contempt for the contemporary Russian state as you can make. And that’s before you’ve even opened the book.