Masha Gessen
Masha Gessen is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of several books, among them the National Book Award-winning The Future is History and the Samuel Johnson prize-longlisted The Man Without a Face. The recipient of numerous other awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, Gessen lives in New York City.
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After the Olympics Left
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‘Once I came home at the end of August, it was as if nothing had ever happened. Indeed, nothing had.‘
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Mutations
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‘With a disease as unpredictable as cancer, the opportunity to blame an actual person is an unexpected temptation.’
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My Grandmother, the Censor
Masha Gessen
‘Where do crimes begin and end, and who, decades later, can be held responsible?’