Efraim Sevela’s novella “Men's Talk in a Russian Bathhouse” — a kind of new “Decameron” — is rightly considered one of the author’s best-known works. At the heart of the plot are three high-ranking and fairly well-off friends, Astakhov, Zuev, and Lunin, who meet while vacationing at a government sanatorium. They shut themselves away in a comfortable bathhouse on the sanatorium grounds and, under the influence of bath and wine vapors, becoming giddy with their own candor, begin telling each other about the women in their lives…