Masha Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of several books, among them The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. The recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, Gessen teaches at Amherst College and lives in New York City.
ARTICLES FEATURING MASHA

A Spark Neglected Burns the House: On “The Future Is History”
"The Future Is History" is not just a journalistic account of Russia's national collapse. It’s also a profoundly novelistic account....

When Gay Russia Speaks
A new book focuses on what gay Russians themselves have to say about being gay in Russia....

Punk Is Not Dead
The biography of Pussy Riot...
