The Marginalist
by Keith Gessen
by Keith Gessen
UNACKNOWLEDGED LEGISLATION: WRITERS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE by Christopher Hitchens Verso, 2000, 358 pp $25
0N THE FIFTH floor of Harvard's Lamont Library, near the men's room, there is an old, well-t...
Deposition for a Master
by Keith Gessen
by Keith Gessen
The Human Stain
by Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin, 2000 365 pp $26
What Philip Roth has always needed—and what, like Joseph K., he has been unfairly denied—is a proper trial. If not for the a...
'It Is Not Over Yet'
by Keith Gessen
by Keith Gessen
Victor Serge: The Course is Set on Hope
by Susan Weissman
Verso, 2001 364 pp $35
In the months after the Nazi invasion of France, while hoping for an exit visa but expecting Stalin's henchmen, V...
Winning Hearts, Losing Souls
by Keith Gessen
by Keith Gessen
What's the Matter with Kansas?
How Conservatives Won
The Heart of America
by Thomas Frank
Metropolitan Books, 2004 288 pp $24
For what it's worth, Commodify Your Dissent, the 1997 anthology ...
Two Decades After the Fall: Russia--From Great State to Failed State
by Keith Gessen
by Keith Gessen
WHAT HAPPENED in Russia after 1989? An old, intricate, broken system was simply replaced with no system at all. Government stopped functioning. Russia, at various points in the 1990s, came close to be...
