Masha Gessen
Book Critic: Anna Rankin
Today writer, journalist and filmmaker Anna Rankin talks to Jesse about Masha Gessen's Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace and two books from Belarusian… Audio
Masha Gessen: Surviving Autocracy
Within 48 hours of Donald Trump's 2016 victory, Masha Gessen's essay Autocracy: Rules for Survival had gone viral. A staff writer at The New Yorker, Gessen's Soviet childhood and two decades covering… Audio
Feature Guest - Masha Gessen
Russian journalist and author Masha Gessen, says she is been forced to leave Russia because of the government's new "homosexual propoganda laws". Masha Gessen is a mother of three with her same sex… Audio
Masha Gessen: Putin's Russia
Russian-American journalist whose new book is The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, and is a guest at the 2013 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival. Audio