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  • Surviving Autocracy

    by Masha Gessen ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITING“When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times**“A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact.” —InterviewAs seen on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and heard on NPR’s All Things Considered: the bestselling, National Book Award–winning journalist offers an essential guide to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner)

    How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

    by Masha Gessen ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITINGWINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONWINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD**The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.Award-winning journalist Masha ... Read more

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  • The Man Without a Face

    The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

    by Masha Gessen ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITINGThe National Book Award winner's biography of a ruthless man's ascent to near-absolute power.**“In a country where journalists critical of the government have a way of meeting untimely deaths, Gessen has shown remarkable courage in researching and writing this unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia.” —The Wall Street Journal ... Read more

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  • Ester and Ruzya

    How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace

    by Masha Gessen ...
    In this “extraordinary family memoir,”* the National Book Award–winning author of The Future Is History reveals the story of her two grandmothers, who defied Fascism and Communism during a time when tyranny reigned.*The New York Times Book ReviewIn the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women began separate journeys of survival. Ester Goldberg was a ... Read more

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  • Perfect Rigour

    A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of a Lifetime

    by Masha Gessen ...
    In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In 2000, the Clay Institute in Boston named it one of seven great unsolved mathematical problems, and promised a million dollars to anyone who could find a ... Read more

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  • We

    by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Clarence Brown ...
    Translated by Clarence Brown ...
    The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet RussiaYevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives ... Read more

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  • The Brothers

    The Road to an American Tragedy

    by Masha Gessen ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITING“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)The National Book Award winning journalist recounts how the American dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted* ... Read more

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  • Two Women in Their Time

    The Belarus Free Theatre and the Art of Resistance

    by Misha Friedman ...
    Series series Diverse Humanity: An LGBTQ+ Photobook Series
    A collaboration between the National Book Award–winning journalist and the prize-winning photographer on the queer-resistance theater troupeIn the fall of 2017, the internationally acclaimed underground theater troupe Belarus Free Theatre took New York by storm for a production of their harrowing anti-torture, anti-Putin play, Burning Doors. They were joined by Maria Alyokhina, a member of Russian ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2026

    by Masha Gessen, Kim Dana Kupperman ...
    A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by critically acclaimed author of The Future Is History and How to Survive Totalitarianism and New York Times columnist, M. Gessen.The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.M. Gessen, critically acclaimed ... Read more

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  • Words Will Break Cement

    The Passion of Pussy Riot

    by Masha Gessen ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITINGFrom National Book Award winner Masha Gessen, the heroic story of Pussy Riot, who resurrected the power of truth in a society built on lies.**On February 21, 2012, five young women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. In neon-colored dresses, tights, and balaclavas, they performed a “punk prayer” beseeching the “Mother of God” ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Blood Matters

    From BRCA1 to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene

    by Masha Gessen ...
    A National Book Award winner's personal journey through the ethical dilemmas and unsettling choices raised by the new frontier of DNA testing.Several years after Masha Gessen's mother died of breast cancer, she discovered she too had the BRCA1 gene mutation, which predisposes women to high rates of ovarian and breast cancer. Her doctors gave her narrow options: surgical removal of her breasts and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where the Jews Aren't

    The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region

    by Masha Gessen ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    From the acclaimed author of The Man Without a Face, the previously untold story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia that reveals the complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the familiar narrative that begins with pogroms and ends with emigration.In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. The place was called ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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