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Mikhail Bulgakov
This is Bulgakov’s semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success…
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Keith Gessen
An … account of fatherhood and the surprising, magical, and maddening first five years of a son’s life –Provided by publisher.
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A wise, sensitive novel about Russia, exile, family, love, history and fate, this work asks what people owe the place they were born, and in return, what it owes them…
A portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century that charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith, as they overthink their college years, underthink their love…
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'A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene' - Dwight Garner, New York Times
'Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt' - Daniel Engber…
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Capturing with a miniaturist’s brush the unfolding demands of family, fortune, personal ambition, ideology, and desire, A Terrible Country is a compelling novel about ageing, radical politics, Russia at a…
Gessen’s acclaimed debut offers a charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood in the 21st century. The novel charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith as they overthink their…
'A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene' - New York Times
George Orwell
These essays follow Orwell as he demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or a body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary.
Kingsley Amis
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the 20th century, this book remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in…
Svetlana Alexievich
First published in Russian as Tchernobylskaia Molitva by Editions Ostojie, 1997 –Copyright page.
A collection of essays- historical and personal- about the present and future of American cities. –
Dmitrii Furman
Examines the history and functioning of Russia'a post-Soviet political system: an imitation democracy.
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Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Vanishings and apparitions, nightmares and twists of fate, mysterious ailments and supernatural interventions haunt these stories by the Russian master Petrushevskaya, heir to the spellbinding tradition of Gogol and Poe.
George Orwell,Keith Gessen
The essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984. As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net.
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Orwell demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary.
Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager,N+1,Keith Gessen
n + 1 Magazine, a New York literary magazine, presents a profoundly candid and captivating insider account of the economic crisis from an anonymous hedge fund manager.
Kirill Medvedev
Edited and introduced by n+1 co-founder Keith Gessen, It’s No Good includes selected poems from Kirill Medvedev’s books of poetry and subsequent online publications, as well as his most significant…
The first book to explore the Occupy movement in depth, with reportage and analysis.
