Keith Gessen is a founding editor of N+1 and the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men. Among his translations from the Russian are Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich and, with Anna Summers, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.
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Horror Tour
September 22, 2005
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Subversive Activities
December 16, 2004
Angels on the Head of a Pin
by Yuri Druzhnikov, translated from the Russian by Thomas Moore
Ice (Lyod) by Vladimir Sorokin
The Dialectics of the Transition Period from Nowhere to Nothing (Dialektika Perehodnogo Perioda iz Niotkuda v Nikuda) by Viktor Pelevin