The Brothers
The Road to an American Tragedy
Look out for Masha Gessen's new book, THE FUTURE IS HISTORY, coming October 2017
“A gripping narrative and a stunning piece of investigative journalism… [that] gives us the human side to the story of two young men who must be understood as more than monsters” (Christian Science Monitor)
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 Tsarnaev died, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, was captured and brought to trial. Yet even after the guilty verdict and the death sentence, what we didn't know was why. Why did the American Dream go so wrong for two immigrants? How did such a…
Masha Gessen is the author of twelve books, including the National Book Award–winning The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia and The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. A staff writer at The New Yorker and the recipient of numerous awards, including Guggenheim and Carnegie fellowships, Gessen teaches at Bard College and lives in New York City.
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Yevgeny Zamyatin; Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Clarence Brown; Foreword by Masha Gessen
Surviving Autocracy
Masha Gessen
Never Remember
Masha Gessen and Misha Friedman
The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner)
Masha Gessen
Where the Jews Aren't
Masha Gessen
The Brothers
Masha Gessen
Words Will Break Cement
Masha Gessen
The Man Without a Face
Masha Gessen