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Masha Gessen is an acclaimed Russian-American journalist and the author of ten books of nonfiction, including bestsellers The Man Without a Face and Words Will Break Cement. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Vanity Fair, and many other publications, and has received numerous awards.

Her most recent book is The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the 2017 National Book Award for nonfiction. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker. A longtime resident of Moscow, she now lives in New York.

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Masha Gessen and Sheng Keyi

Sheng Keyi, Masha Gessen

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22 May

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Masha Gessen, Maxine Beneba Clarke

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23 Feb

Masha Gessen on Donald Trump's Lessons in American Democracy

Masha Gessen

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5 Dec

Here and Queer: Gay Rights Across the Globe

Masha Gessen, Dennis Altman, Anna Brown

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28 Nov

The Fifth Estate

Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen, Sally Warhaft

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25 Aug
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