The horseradish on the hamburger: Of Trump, Putin, the press, and the urgent legacy of Anna Politkovskaya
Last week, as the G20 met in Hamburg (please use this space to imagine your own flavorful beef joke) amid raging protests, US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin got to… Read more »
Anna Politkovskaya has a question for Pence and Trump; had she not been assassinated ten years ago today, she’d be the one to ask it
As we mentioned last week, today marks the tenth anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya’s assassination. Politkovskaya, a ferocious journalist at Russia’s Novaya Gazyeta newspaper, became well-known for her trenchant-but-calm reporting style, vigorous critique of… Read more »
Remembering Anna Politkovskaya
Next week marks the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Russian journalist (and, posthumously, Melville House author) Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya was a courageous and excellent journalist, among the most prominent critics… Read more »
The prize you should be paying attention to today
Someone will win the Nobel Prize for Literature today, and if past years are any indication, it’s probably going to be someone who seems expressly chosen to frustrate the Ladbrokes… Read more »
Boris Berezovsky in conversation with Anna Politkovskaya
Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky died in exile in London just over a week ago. Although examiners declared that Berezovsky’s death was “consistent with hanging and there were no signs of… Read more »
In Memoriam: Anna Politkovskaya
Sunday marks the six-year anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya’s assassination. A fierce and courageous journalist, Politkovskaya was murdered by what is believed to have been a contract killer, who stepped up… 1 / Read more »
Art installation commemorates slain journalists
Among the books I’ve been most humbled to contribute to in some small way, our collection of essays by the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Is Journalism Worth Dying For?, is surely… Read more »