Keith Gessen is the author of A Terrible Country and All the Sad Young Literary Men, and is a founding editor of n+1. He has translated or co-translated, from Russian, the work of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Kirill Medvedev, and Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl. A regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and New York magazine, Gessen teaches journalism at Columbia and lives in New York with his wife, the novelist Emily Gould, and their two sons.
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“Hilarious. . . . To understand Russia, read A Terrible Country.” —Time 'This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it.' —Dwight Garner, The New York Times 'Hilarious, h... SEE MORE