Keith Gessen is a founding editor of n+1 and teaches at Columbia Journalism School. He has written two novels, All the Sad Young Literary Men and A Terrible Country.
Keith Gessen talks to Vadim Nikitin about Russia, socialism, the Soviet inheritance and his new book, A Terrible Country.
One of my parents’ favourite Soviet films is called Autumn Marathon. Its main character, an academic translator, is living a double life. Out of divided loyalties rather than greed or...
Sad young and literary in 1938 and you could at least prove yourself opposing Hitler, sad young and literary in 1968 and you could demonstrate in Grosvenor Square, but what if you had the...
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