The Eurasian Knot

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July 06, 2018 The Banya is Everything
Guest:
Bryon MacWilliams is a journalist, essayist, poet and translator. His writings have appeared in publications big and small, including: The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nature, The Literary Review, and B O D Y. His book, The Girl in a Haystack, a true-life Holocaust story from Ukraine, is forthcoming in the fall of 2018 from Serving House Books. He is seeking a publisher for his translation of the memoirs of Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky. His memoir With Light Steam: A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths was published by Northern Illinois University Press.
Music:
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Fall,” Darklands, 1987.
57 min
June 29, 2018 Russia’s A Terrible Country
Guest: Keith Gessen on America's Russia Hands and his novel A Terrible Country published by Viking.
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June 29, 2018 Russia’s A Terrible Country
Guest:
Keith Gessen is a journalist, novelist, editor and translator. He’s the founding editor of N+1 and the translator of Kirill Medvedev’s It’s No Good and Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl. He’s also written for the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and many other publications between teaching journalism at Columbia University. He’s the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men and his new novel is A Terrible Country published by Viking.
Read Keith’s article “The Quiet Americans Behind the U.S.-Russia Imbroglio” and my response.
Listen to Keith Gessen’s previous appearance on the SRB Podcast!
Music:
The Smiths, “That Joke isn’t Funny Anymore,” Meat is Murder, 1984.
1 hr
June 29, 2018 Russia's A Terrible Country
Guest:
Keith Gessen is a journalist, novelist, editor and translator. He’s the founding editor of N+1 and the translator of Kirill Medvedev’s It’s No Good and Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl. He’s also written for the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and many other publications between teaching journalism at Columbia University. He’s the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men and his new novel is A Terrible Country published by Viking.
1 hr
June 18, 2018 Surveillance Valley
Guest: Yasha Levine on Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet published by Public Affairs Books.
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June 18, 2018 Surveillance Valley
Guest:
Yasha Levine is a Russian-born American investigative journalist and a founding editor of the eXiled. His work has been published in the Baffler, Pando Daily, Wired, the Nation, Penthouse and many others. He’s the author of Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet published by Public Affairs Books.
Music:
Kraftwerk, “Computer World,” Computer World, 1984.
1 hr
June 09, 2018 Russian Literature and Terrorism
Guest: Lynn Patyk on Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
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55 min
June 09, 2018 Russian Literature and Terrorism
Guest:
Lynn Patyk is an Associate Professor of Russian at Dartmouth College where she researches how Russian literature shaped the emergence and practice of modern terrorism. She’s the author of Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Music:
Jane’s Addiction, “1%,” Jane’s Addiction Live, 1987.
55 min
June 01, 2018 Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria
Guest: Maxim Suchkov, editor of Al-Monitor’s Russia-Mideast coverage, on Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria.
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47 min
June 01, 2018 Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria
Guest:
Maxim Suchkov is the editor of Al-Monitor’s Russia-Mideast coverage. He is a non-resident expert at the Russian International Affairs Council and at the Valdai International Discussion Club. Formerly he was a Fulbright visiting fellow at Georgetown University (2010-11) and New York University (2015).
Music:
The Bee Gees, “You Should be Dancing,” Saturday Night Fever, 1977.
47 min

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