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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
National Book Award winner Masha Gessen's biography of a ruthless man's ascent to near-absolute power. "In a country where journalists critical of the government have a way of …
The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner): How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of …
Surviving Autocracy
'An indispensable voice of and for this moment' Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Many of us are consumed by news cycles reporting on Trump's latest astonishing policy or …
Perfect Rigour
In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex …
Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel; New, Complete, Uncensored Version
" A] masterpiece . . . Babi Yar is] every bit the peer of the canonical works of witness such as] Anne Frank's diary . . . Wiesel's Night . . . Solzhenityn's Gulag Archipelago." …
Dead Again
Isaiah Berlin once argued that the concept of the intelligentsia was "Russia's greatest contribution to world civilization." Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Russian …
Where the Jews Aren't
The previously untold story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia that reveals the complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the familiar narrative that begins with …
The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy
On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt, Tamerlan …
In the Here and There
'In the Here and There', is a description of a political-psychological moment of crisis, when glasnost came to Russia and no one was sure if it could be trusted.
Future Is History (National Book Award Winner)
WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A …
Blood Matters
A National Book Award winner’s personal journey through the ethical dilemmas and unsettling choices raised by the new frontier of DNA testing. Several years after Masha Gessen’s …
Words Will Break Cement
From National Book Award winner Masha Gessen, the heroic story of Pussy Riot, who resurrected the power of truth in a society built on lies. On February 21, 2012, five young women …