7 Must-Read Books to Understand Ukraine and Russia

Keith Gessen is the author of A Terrible Country and All the Sad Young Literary Men, and is a founding editor of n+1. He has translated or co-translated, from Russian, the work of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Kirill Medvedev, and Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl. A regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and New York magazine, Gessen teaches journalism at Columbia University and lives in New York with his wife, the novelist Emily Gould, and their two sons. Viking will publish his third book, Raising Raffi, June 7, just before Father’s Day.