Paul Goldberg on His New Cold War Mystery About Refuseniks in 1976 Moscow
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
Photograph by Robert Stephenson from his book “We Are Building Capitalism! Moscow in Transition 1992-1997
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.
In this episode, Andrew talks to the author of The Dissident, Paul Goldberg, about Cold War detente, Kissinger, the Y-word, and the similarities between the Moscow of 1976 and 2023.
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Paul Goldberg is the author of the novels The Yid, which was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the National Jewish Book Award’s Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction, and The Château. As a reporter, Goldberg has written two books about the Soviet human rights movement, and coauthored (with Otis Brawley) How We Do Harm, an expose of the US health-care system. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Slate, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He is also the editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, a newsletter focused on the business and politics of cancer. He lives in Washington, DC.
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