Selected essays and journalism
Russia: The Hidden Opposition- The New York Review of Books
There Is Something Putin Can’t Control- The New York Times
What Will Russia without Putin Look Like? Maybe This- The New York Times
They Are Stuck in Freezing Woods, and ‘Fortress Europe’ Won’t Let Them In- The New York Times
The Kazakh Domestic Violence Murder Trial that Captivated Russia- Foreign Policy
Moscow’s Story- New Left Review
The Little Picketers of Russia- The Nation
The View from Warsaw- The Baffler
The Discontent of Russia- Aeon
Miłosz’s Magic Mountain- The Baffler
From Ravensbruck to Papal Advisor: The Life of Wanda Półtawska- Aeon
Putin’s War in Ukraine Looks More and More like a Failure. Past Leaders Haven’t Survived Similar Mistakes- Business Insider
Soviet Failure in Afghanistan Hints at Outcome of Putin’s War- Business Insider
How Afghanistan Changed a Superpower- The Atlantic
Poland’s Abortion Ban Protests Changed the Country Forever- Foreign Policy
Russia by Numbers- New Left Review
In the Woods: Fortifying the EU’s Eastern border- New Left Review
Darkness at Noon: On History, Narrative, and Domestic Violence- The American Historical Review
Burying Homo Sovieticus- New Left Review
The Unruly Masses: Andrei Konchalovsky’s Cautionary Tale- The Los Angeles Review of Books
The Political History of Concealing Illness, from Brezhnev to Trump- The Washington Post
Beyond Borders: Journeying into Olga Tokarczuk’s Divided Homeland on the Eve of her Nobel Prize Win- The Calvert Journal
Nureyev: Kirill Serebrennikov's Bolshoi Ballet about the Dancer Is Finally Unleashed- The Calvert Journal
The Death of Stalin: Russia's Ministry of Culture Stages Its Own Censorship Farce- The Calvert Journal
Inside the Soviet Union's Secret Pornography Collection- The Guardian
A Visit to Moscow's Brain Institute- VICE
Socialist Realism's Russian Renaissance- ARTNews
Bringing the Pushkin into the 21st Century- ARTNews
From Vodka to Vino- Modern Farmer
Moscow: Insider Travel Guide- CNN
Designers of New York's High Line Set Their Sights on Moscow's Former Ghetto- Tablet Magazine
A Look at the History of Gay Cruising in Moscow- The Moscow News (via The Huffington Post)
Moscow's Killing Fields: Inside a Stalinist Execution Site- The Moscow News (via Johnson's Russia List)
Mayakovsky Anniversary Reveals Struggle over Poet's Legacy- The Moscow News (via Johnson's Russia List)
Stalin's Secret Kill Lists- The Moscow News (via Johnson's Russia List)
Exhibits Grapple with Gorbachev, Yeltsin's Legacies- The Moscow Times
Memories of Soviet Emigres, Dissidents Go on Show- The Moscow Times
The Death Artist- Russian Life
The Khachaturyan Sisters and Russia’s History of Fighting Terror at Home- NYU Jordan Center
Mourning the Martyred Tsar: Notes from Ekaterinburg on the Centenary of the Romanovs’ Execution- Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, UC Berkeley