Sally McGrane has written about topics from culture and politics to business and travel in Russia and Ukraine for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Monocle, and others. She is the author of two spy thrillers, Moscow at Midnight (2016) and Odesa at Dawn (2022). She lives in Berlin.
Sally McGrane
Articles
Churchill in the Era of TikTok: A Conversation with Simon Shuster
Sally McGrane talks to Simon Shuster, the biographer of Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Mirror World of Counterculture: On Lauren John Joseph’s “At Certain Points We Touch”
Sally McGrane reviews Lauren John Joseph’s debut novel “At Certain Points We Touch.”
Two Decades of Futility: On Erik Edstrom’s “Un-American: A Soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War”
A soldier’s journey through Afghanistan reveals dismal truths about the United States.
Inside and Outside the Bubble
In "Drawn to Berlin," every page is a gem. While there may be no answers to the painful questions it poses, the search itself is worth every minute.
The After of Disaster in “The Great Quake”
Henry Fountain’s scientific interests are wide-ranging and resolutely anchored in the human.
This Is Not a Phone Conversation
Since the end of the Soviet Union, the methods employed to control information in Russia have altered.
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