Mary-Kay Wilmers and Andrew O’Hagan: The Eitingons

Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the LRB, talks to Andrew O’Hagan about her book The Eitingons, which tells a story of the twentieth century through the lives of her ancestors on her Russian mother’s side: the fur-trader, the psychoanalyst and the KGB killer.

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