Putin

What Is Donald Trump Doing? Three Theories for the Madness

Aron Solomon on the Chaos and the Cruelty of the Worst President in American History

 
By Aron Solomon  March 7, 2025
Beyond the Page

Mikhail Zygar on Putin, Ukraine, and the Future of Russia

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  October 7, 2024
Literary Adaptations

Why a New Adaptation of The Master and Margarita is Setting Russian Society Aflame

By Cameron Manley  March 19, 2024
Fiction/Non/Fiction

“They Want What We Have.” Matt Gallagher on Supporting Ukrainians’ Struggle for Liberation

By Fiction Non Fiction  February 15, 2024
Early Russian Literature

How a 17th Century Priest Invented the Russian Novel

By Irina Zhorov  November 1, 2023
Paperbacks

23 books out in paperback this August!

By Gabrielle Bellot  July 28, 2023
The Hub

Margaret Atwood has been banned from Russia.

By Jessie Gaynor  November 15, 2022
Russian Literature

Searching for a Lost History in Modern-Day Russia

By Marcia DeSanctis  May 2, 2022
Keen On

When It Comes to Trump, What Exactly Is Putin’s End Game?

By Keen On  October 19, 2020
Keen On

How KGB Capitalism Took Over Russia—and the World

By Keen On  October 8, 2020
Memoir

What Can an Essayist Do in the Face of Massive Tragedy?

By Sonya Bilocerkowycz  January 9, 2020
Dictators

In the Age of Political Thugs

By Sonya Bilocerkowycz  October 11, 2019
Awards

Meet National Book Award Finalist Masha Gessen

By Emily Temple  November 2, 2017
Conversations

Historian Timothy Snyder on Russia, Trump, and Terrorism

By Christopher Lydon  April 5, 2017
Excerpts

Where is the Power in Mass Protest?

By Sophie Pinkham  December 27, 2016
Essay

A Novel of Putin’s Russia That Got Its Writer Beaten Up

By Will Evans  January 25, 2016
History

There’s No Place For Joy in Today’s Moscow

By Sergei Lebedev  January 20, 2016

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