Keith Gessen is the author of A Terrible Country, All the Sad Young Literary Men and a founding editor of n+1. He edited and co-translated Kirill Medvedev’s It’s No Good, also published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, and translated Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl. He teaches journalism at Columbia and lives in New York.
17 Ebooks by Keith Gessen
Keith Gessen: A Terrible Country
In the summer of 2008, Andrei Kaplan moves from New York to Moscow to look after his ageing grandmother, a woman who survived the dark days of communism and witnessed Russia’s violent capitalist …
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Svetlana Alexievich: Voices from Chernobyl
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, pr …
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Keith Gessen & Mark Greif: Occupy!
Nach Tunis, Kairo, Madrid, Tottenham und Athen hat die globale Welle der Empörung nun auch das Auge des Sturms erreicht, die Wall Street in New York. Die Aktivisten, die am 17. September 2011 den …
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Keith Gessen: All the Sad Young Literary Men
A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, All the Sad Young Literary Men charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith, as they overthink their …
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Keith Gessen & George Orwell: All Art Is Propaganda
The essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984.As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie …
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Keith Gessen: Ein schreckliches Land
»Um Russland zu verstehen, müssen Sie dieses Buch lesen.« (The Times)
Andrej Kaplan, geboren in Russland, aufgewachsen in den USA, steckt beruflich in einer Sackgasse, und auch privat läuft es …
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Keith Gessen: Raising Raffi
'Given the bedlam it describes, Raising Raffi is impressively clear-sighted, entertaining and analytical' – Financial Times
'A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic …
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€20.39
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya: There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby
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Carla Blumenkranz & Keith Gessen: Occupy!
In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, …
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€16.99
Dmitrii Furman: Imitation Democracy
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia under Yeltsin and Putin implemented a political system of ‘imitation democracy, ‘ marked by ‘a huge disparity between formal constitutional principles …
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€27.99
Kirill Medvedev: It’s No Good
Before retiring from the literary world and relinquishing all copyright to his work in 2003, Kirill Medvedev had published two collections of poetry with a traditional publishing house. His poems are …
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