Midnight in Chernobyl

Manual for Survival

Bathsheba Demuth is a historian of the United States and Russia. Her first book, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, is forthcoming from Norton in August 2019.

Bathsheba Demuth

The Monster Within: On Two New Books About Chernobyl

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Bathsheba Demuth is a historian of the United States and Russia. Her first book, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, is forthcoming from Norton in August 2019.