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RESCHEDULED: Masha Gessen: Portland Arts & Lectures 2024–25
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EVENT UPDATE 2/12/25: Due to the severe weather advisory, this event has been rescheduled to Thursday, May 8, 2025. Your previously issued tickets will still work for entry on this new date.
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This event is part of our 40th anniversary season of Portland Arts & Lectures. A subscription to the five-part series is required to attend this event. The series is now SOLD OUT!
M. Gessen is a Russian American author, translator, and journalist. They’ve written 11 books, including Surviving Autocracy, The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaiming Russia (winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction). They’ve written for many US publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The New Yorker. Gessen is a distinguished professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and a distinguished visiting writer at Bard College. They live in New York with their wife and children.
Praise:
For The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia:
“A remarkable portrait of an ever-shifting era . . . Gessen weaves her characters’ stories into a seamless, poignant whole. Her analysis of Putin’s malevolent administration is just as effective . . . a harrowing, compassionate and important book.” —The San Francisco Chronicle
“A superb, alarming portrait of a government that exercises outsize influence in the modern world, at great human cost.” —Kirkus Reviews
2024–25 Portland Arts & Lectures Series Subscription: SOLD OUT
Masha Gessen
Masha Gessen is a Russian American author, translator, and journalist. They’ve written 11 books, including Surviving Autocracy, The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction), and an award-winning account of the Boston Marathon bombers titled The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy. Gessen spent years covering Putin’s regime in Russia and was famously dismissed as the editor of the Russian popular science magazine Vokrug sveta for refusing to cover a Putin event they felt was propaganda. Gessen received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, a Nieman Fellowship, the Hitchens Prize, an Overseas Press Club Award for Best Commentary, and the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought. They’ve written for many US publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The New Yorker. Gessen is a distinguished professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and a distinguished visiting writer at Bard College. They live in New York with their wife and children.
