Linda Kinstler is a writer based in Berkeley, California. She was previously a Marshall Scholar in the United Kingdom, where she covered British politics for The Atlantic. She’s a contributing writer at Politico Europe, which she helped launch in Brussels in spring 2015. She covered the war in Ukraine for The New Republic and served as the magazine’s managing editor. Before that, she was a Google News Lab fellow at Nieman Journalism Lab. She graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
“Deflected by This Bitter Era”: On Olga Livshin’s “A Life Replaced” and Olga Zilberbourg’s “Like Water and Other Stories”
Linda Kinstler finds a resonance between “A Life Replaced” by Olga Livshin and “Like Water and Other Stories” by Olga Zilberbourg....
“Why Did You Survive?”: On Yevsey Tseytlin’s “Long Conversations in Anticipation of a Joyous Death”
Linda Kinstler listens in on “Long Conversations in Anticipation of a Joyous Death” by Yevsey Tseytlin, translated from the Russian by Alexander Rojavin....
“Tell Me How to Get to Babi Yar”: On Katja Petrowskaja’s “Maybe Esther: A Family Story”
Linda Kinstler contemplates “Maybe Esther: A Family Story” by Katja Petrowskaja....
To Petrify Time: On Grigory Kanovich’s “Shtetl Love Song” and Sergey Kanovich’s Lost Shtetl Project
Linda Kinstler considers two Lithuanian Jewish memorial endeavors, Grigory Kanovich's novel “Shtetl Love Song” and his son Sergey’s “Lost Shtetl” project....
Navahrudak’s Native Sons: A Report from the Kushners’ Belarusian Homeland
Linda Kinstler reports from Navahrudak, Belarus, a town with a deep history and a link to the Trump administration....
Unwieldy and Inescapable
Linda Kinstler on Postmemory and David Bezmozgis’s “The Betrayers”...
