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masha gessen

@mashagessen

Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Author: Surviving Autocracy; The Future Is History; The Man Without a Face
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I got a prize and gave a talk. It didn't go as planned, and this wasn't the talk I'd prepared. But I'm glad I got to say this. zeit.de/kultur/2023-12…

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Update: have now had more requests for comment than I can handle (but I'm trying). Remaining business: please get my pronouns right. Haaretz.com I'm looking at you. They/them

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You'd think, with all the attention to the Arendt Prize debacle, I'd be inundated with media calls/texts. You'd be wrong. Not one German journalist has reached out for comment. One US journalist did. All reporting has happened with no input/reaction from me. Inaccuracies pile up

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In which I argue that we place the Holocaust outside of history and refuse to learn from it. In the Shadow of the Holocaust
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In which I got to interview Robert Jay Lifton, if you can believe it. How to Maintain Hope in an Age of Catastrophe
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In which I asked about the particular pain of being and Israeli anti-occupation activist right now. newyorker.com/news/our-colum…

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In which I wrote about a 35-year conflict that most of my readers have never heard about. The Violent End of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Fight for Independence
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In which I think this was an accidental coup. Prigozhin Showed Russians That They Might Have a Choice
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This, from a couple of weeks ago, has held up well. My argument was, and is, that the threat to Putin's regime is not in lack of 'support for the war,' whatever that means in a totalitarian society, but in losing the monopoly on political speech and action

This, from a couple of weeks ago, has held up well. My argument was, and is, that the threat to Putin's regime is not in lack of 'support for the war,' whatever that means in a totalitarian society, but in losing the monopoly on political speech and action
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Tomorrow night! With the great Rachel Louise Snyder! Her book is brilliant, her stage presence is unparalleled, and her humor defies description. Come!

Tomorrow night! With the great @RLSWrites! Her book is brilliant, her stage presence is unparalleled, and her humor defies description. Come!
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In which Russian law can make a spy out of anyone. How Putin Criminalized Journalism in Russia newyorker.com/news/our-colum… via The New Yorker

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The seventh (and final) dispatch from Kharkiv. An Architect’s Dream of Rebuilding a Battered City in Ukraine newyorker.com/news/dispatch/… via The New Yorker

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The sixth in a series of dispatches from Kharkiv. A Ukrainian Philosopher’s Reluctant Departure from Kharkiv newyorker.com/news/dispatch/… via The New Yorker

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