Videos

New Yorker staff writer Masha Gessen provided her take on life in the U.S. since the election of President Trump. This event was hosted by Politics and Prose bookstore.

Book TV presented coverage of the 68th annual National Book Awards, which included awards for non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and young people’s literature. Also, honored was novelist Annie Pr…

Contributors to the New York Review of Books talked about immigration. Panelists included Masha Gessen, author of The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia; Yasmine El Rash…

Author Masha Gessen delivered the Arthur Miller Lecture followed by an interview with Samantha Bee as part of the 2017 PEN World Voices Festival. Ms. Gessen books include The Future is Histo…

Authors talked about terrorism, Islamophobia, and the war on terror. Panelists included Masha Gessen, author of The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy; Moustafa Bayoumi, author of Thi…

Masha Gessen talked about her book The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy, in which she reports on the lead-up to the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013, and examines the facto…

Moscow-based journalist Masha Gessen talked about her book, Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot, in which she profiles the feminist punk rock collective, Pussy Riot, whose cri…

Masha Gessen, a journalist based in Moscow, talked about the rise and continued influence of Vladimir Putin in Russia. She presented a portrait of a ruthless politician underestimated by fri…

In the first panel, “Propaganda Then and Now: What Orwell Did and Didn’t Know,” the panelists discussed the history of propaganda and deceptive political speech. Andras Szanto edited What…