2007
First Published
4.00
Average Rating
208
Number of Pages
The editors on cell phones, blogs, and email, Basharat Peer's memoir of Kashmir, Eli Evans on Milwaukee. Keith Gessen's "Torture and the Known Unknowns," a fable by Benjamin Kunkel, a report on flying cars. Plus fiction about nuclear proliferation
Avg Rating
4.00
Number of Ratings
18
5 STARS
44%
4 STARS
33%
3 STARS
11%
2 STARS
0%
1 STARS
11%
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Author
Keith Gessen
Author · 8 books
Keith Gessen was born in Moscow in 1975 and came to the United States with his family when he was six years old. He is a co-founder of the literary magazine n+1 and the author of the novels All the Sad Young Literary Men and A Terrible Country. He has written about Russia for the London Review of Books, n+1, the Nation, the New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine, and has translated or co-translated several books from Russian, including Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, and It's No Good by Kirill Medvedev. He is also the editor of the n+1 books What We Should Have Known, Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager, and City by City. He lives in New York with his wife, the author and publisher Emily Gould, and their son, Raphy, who likes squishy candy.
