Dennis Zhou

You can’t go home again | 16 August 2018

Through the eyes of his Russian-American protagonist, Gessen hilariously skewers the many contradictions of the newly rich Russia of 2008

issue 18 August 2018

  • A Terrible Country

    Keith Gessen

    FitzCarraldo Editions, pp. 352

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