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A Terrible Country

A Novel

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**“Hilarious. . . . To understand Russia, read A Terrible Country.”—Time"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."—Dwight Garner, The New York Times"Hilarious, heartbreaking . . . A Terrible Country may be one of the best books you'll read this year."—Ann Levin, Associated PressA New York Times Editors' ChoiceNamed a Best Boo... ... Read more

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**“Hilarious. . . . To understand Russia, read A Terrible Country.”—Time"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."—Dwight Garner, The New York Times"Hilarious, heartbreaking . . . A Terrible Country may be one of the best books you'll read this year."—Ann Levin, Associated PressA New York Times Editors' ChoiceNamed a Best Boo...
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Raising Raffi

The First Five Years

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**“A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times“Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt.” —Daniel Engber, The Atlantic“An instant classic.” —M. C. Mah, RomperNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB & THE MILLIONSAn unsparing, loving account of fatherhood and the surprising, magical, and maddening first five years of a son’s ... Read more

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**“A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times“Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt.” —Daniel Engber, The Atlantic“An instant classic.” —M. C. Mah, RomperNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB & THE MILLIONSAn unsparing, loving account of fatherhood and the surprising, magical, and maddening first five years of a son’s
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All the Sad Young Literary Men

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By the author of A Terrible Country and Raising Raffi, a novel of love, sadness, wasted youth, and literary and intellectual ambition—"wincingly funny" (Vogue)Keith Gessen is a brave and trenchant new literary voice. Known as an award-winning translator of Russian and a book reviewer for publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times, Gessen makes his debut with this critically ... Read more

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By the author of A Terrible Country and Raising Raffi, a novel of love, sadness, wasted youth, and literary and intellectual ambition—"wincingly funny" (Vogue)Keith Gessen is a brave and trenchant new literary voice. Known as an award-winning translator of Russian and a book reviewer for publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times, Gessen makes his debut with this critically
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By the author of A Terrible Country and Raising Raffi, a novel of love, sadness, wasted youth, and literary and intellectual ambition—"wincingly funny" (Vogue)Keith Gessen is a brave and trenchant new literary voice. Known as an award-winning translator of Russian and a book reviewer for publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times, Gessen makes his debut with this critically ... Read more

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By the author of A Terrible Country and Raising Raffi, a novel of love, sadness, wasted youth, and literary and intellectual ambition—"wincingly funny" (Vogue)Keith Gessen is a brave and trenchant new literary voice. Known as an award-winning translator of Russian and a book reviewer for publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times, Gessen makes his debut with this critically
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**“A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times“Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt.” —Daniel Engber, The Atlantic“An instant classic.” —M. C. Mah, RomperNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB & THE MILLIONSAn unsparing, loving account of fatherhood and the surprising, magical, and maddening first five years of a son’s ... Read more

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**“A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times“Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt.” —Daniel Engber, The Atlantic“An instant classic.” —M. C. Mah, RomperNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB & THE MILLIONSAn unsparing, loving account of fatherhood and the surprising, magical, and maddening first five years of a son’s
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A Terrible Country

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**“Hilarious. . . . To understand Russia, read A Terrible Country.”—Time"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."—Dwight Garner, The New York Times"Hilarious, heartbreaking . . . A Terrible Country may be one of the best books you'll read this year."—Ann Levin, Associated PressA New York Times Editors' ChoiceNamed a Best Boo... ... Read more

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**“Hilarious. . . . To understand Russia, read A Terrible Country.”—Time"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."—Dwight Garner, The New York Times"Hilarious, heartbreaking . . . A Terrible Country may be one of the best books you'll read this year."—Ann Levin, Associated PressA New York Times Editors' ChoiceNamed a Best Boo...
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Diary of a Very Bad Year

Interviews with an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager

by Hedge Fund Manager, n+1, Keith Gessen ...

" Diary of a Very Bad Year is a rarity: a book on modern finance that's both extraordinarily thoughtful and enormously entertaining." —James Surowiecki, New York Times–bestselling authorA profoundly candid and captivating account of the economic crisis and subprime mortgage collapse, from an anonymous hedge fund manager, as told to the editors of New York literary magazine n+1." Diary of a Very ... Read more

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" Diary of a Very Bad Year is a rarity: a book on modern finance that's both extraordinarily thoughtful and enormously entertaining." —James Surowiecki, New York Times–bestselling authorA profoundly candid and captivating account of the economic crisis and subprime mortgage collapse, from an anonymous hedge fund manager, as told to the editors of New York literary magazine n+1." Diary of a Very
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All Art Is Propaganda

Critical Essays

by George Orwell, Keith Gessen ...

The essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984.As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low.A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned ... Read more

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The essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984.As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low.A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned
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City by City

Dispatches from the American Metropolis

Edited by Keith Gessen, Stephen Squibb ...

A collection of essays—historical and personal—about the present and future of American citiesEdited by Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb, City by City is a collection of essays—historical, personal, and somewhere in between—about the present and future of American cities. It sweeps from Gold Rush, Alaska, to Miami, Florida, encompassing cities large and small, growing and failing. These essays look ... Read more

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A collection of essays—historical and personal—about the present and future of American citiesEdited by Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb, City by City is a collection of essays—historical, personal, and somewhere in between—about the present and future of American cities. It sweeps from Gold Rush, Alaska, to Miami, Florida, encompassing cities large and small, growing and failing. These essays look
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Lucky Jim

by Kingsley Amis ...

**One of The Guardian’s “100 Greatest Novels of All Time”An “extremely funny” satire about college life and high-class manners, hailed as one of the greatest comic novels of the 20th century—by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Old Devils (The New Yorker)**Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and ... Read more

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**One of The Guardian’s “100 Greatest Novels of All Time”An “extremely funny” satire about college life and high-class manners, hailed as one of the greatest comic novels of the 20th century—by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Old Devils (The New Yorker)**Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and
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A Dead Man's Memoir (A Theatrical Novel)

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This is Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers. ... Read more

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This is Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.
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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby

Scary Fairy Tales

by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya ...

Translated by Keith Gessen, Anna Summers ...

New York Times BestsellerWinner of the World Fantasy AwardOne of New York magazine’s 10 Best Books of the YearOne of NPR’s 5 Best Works of Foreign FictionThe celebrated scary fairy tales of Russia’s preeminent contemporary fiction writer—the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol HotelVanishings and a... ... Read more

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New York Times BestsellerWinner of the World Fantasy AwardOne of New York magazine’s 10 Best Books of the YearOne of NPR’s 5 Best Works of Foreign FictionThe celebrated scary fairy tales of Russia’s preeminent contemporary fiction writer—the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol HotelVanishings and a...
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