Bio
Masha Gessen is the author of eleven other books, including the National Book Award-winning The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia and The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. A staff writer at The New Yorker and the recipient of numerous awards, including Guggenheim and Carnegie fellowships, Gessen teaches at Bard College and lives in New York City.Masha Gessen Books
Best American Essays 2026
Masha GessenBabi Yar
Anatoly KuznetsovNa Sombra do Holocausto
Masha GessenSurviving Autocracy
Masha GessenBlood Matters
Masha GessenThe Future Is History (National Book Award Winner)
Masha GessenWhere the Jews Aren't
Masha GessenWords Will Break Cement
Masha GessenThe Man Without a Face
Masha GessenPerfect Rigor
Masha GessenEster and Ruzya
Masha Gessen