Staff Writer, The New Yorker
John W. Kluge Distinguished Visitor - Class of Fall 2018
Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of ten books of nonfiction, most recently The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was recently translated into German (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2018). Gessen is also the author of the national bestseller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). Gessen is a staff writer at the New Yorker and a national fellow with New America Foundation.
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Nov
18
John W. Kluge Lecture
Democracy and Imagination
Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of ten books of nonfiction, most recently The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia.
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Jan
19
Beyond the Lecture: Masha Gessen and Joshua Yaffa
New Yorker staff writer Masha Gessen was at the American Academy in late November to talk about her most recent book, The Future Is History. In this podcast, she discusses Russia, cynicism, doublethink, and the imaginative powers of democracy with fall 2018 Academy fellow Joshua Yaffa, the Moscow c ...
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Nov
18
Masha Gessen: Democracy and Imagination
Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of ten books of nonfiction, most recently The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was recently translated into German (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2018). Gessen is also the author o ...