Masha Gessen: Portland Arts & Lectures 2024–25
$115–$450 (five-part series)
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.
Masha Gessen is a Russian American author, activist, 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
