Masha Gessen
Masha Gessen is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of several books, among them the National Book Award-winning The Future is History and the Samuel Johnson prize-longlisted The Man Without a Face . The recipient of numerous other awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, Gessen lives in New York City.
Masha Gessen is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of several books, among them the National Book Award-winning The Future is History and the Samuel Johnson prize-longlisted The Man Without a Face . The recipient of numerous other awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, Gessen lives in New York City. See less
Masha Gessen's Featured Books
Masha Gessen book reviews
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Modern Russia Explained
by Bill M, Jan 21, 2021
Gessen, a Russian herself (who now writes for the New Yorker), explains what has always seemed an enigma to me, how the modern Russian government operates and why it behaves as it does. Putin is the ... Read More
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
Gessen on Putin
by sam h c, Jan 13, 2016
This is an excellent book. I highly recommend it. Read More
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Dead Again: The Russian Intelligentsia After Communism
A little thin
by RWBoyd, Mar 11, 2010
Actually, this is not a bad book. But it was written so soon after 1989 that the situation for intellectuals was still too much in flux. So rather than an analysis of where the intelligentsia was ... Read More
