![]() Just read this description from the blurb and tell me you don’t want to read this book: “‘The Secret History’ meets ‘Lie with Me’ in Micah Nemerever’s compulsively readable debut novel-a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence…. “These Violent Delights” by Micah Nemerever “When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen,” writes Jennifer Szalai in the New York Times Book Review.Ģ. Other works by Masha include “ The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin,” “ The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia,” and “ Where the Jews Aren’t: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region.” All their books are worth reading on understanding totalitarianism, modern Russia and so much more. ![]() is close to becoming an autocratic state. Their latest book, based on a 2016 essay in the New York Review of Books, is about how the U.S. as a teen and then returned to Russia in 1991. Born in the Soviet Union, they immigrated to the U.S. Masha Gessen is a Russian American Jewish journalist who is an outspoken critic of Russian president Vladimir Putin. ![]()
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