Guest:

Keith Gessen, journalist, translator, and writer. He’s one of the founders of N+1 Magazine and the translator of Kirill Medvedev’s It’s No Good: Poems / Essays /Actions. His most recent article is “Western Journalists in Ukraine” part of N+1’s special symposium on Ukraine.

There are a few texts mentioned in the interview. Here they are for those interested:

• Paul Starobin, “The Eternal Collapse of Russia.”
• Alexei Yurchak, Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet Generation.
• David Foglesong, The American Mission and the ‘Evil Empire’: The Crusade for a ‘Free Russia’ since 1881.
• Perry Anderson, “Incommensurate Russia.”