Masha Gessen began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014, and became a staff writer in 2017. Gessen is the author of nine books, including “The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia,” which won the National Book Award in 2017; and “The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin.” Gessen has written about Russia, autocracy, L.G.B.T. rights, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump, among others, for The New York Review of Books and the New York Times. Updated July 2017
Publications:
Project Title: Putin's War Against the West: Understanding the Origins and Dangers of Russia's Ideological Turn
In the News:
- Don’t Fight Their Lies with Lies of Your Own (NYTimes)
- The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (National Book Foundation)
- A Longtime Critic of Vladimir Putin Won the US National Book Award (Quartzy)
- Masha Gessen on Putin’s Russia and Trump’s America (The New Yorker)
