dispatches from a progressive russian reporter. outrageously good. incredible coda here: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-they-tried-to-kill-me/ read it before or after!!!
but NOT his fiction.
A Soviet Heretic may be my top read of the year we'll see but rn everything is so visceral and gorgeous and he has such a tongue on him.
Vladimir Vysotsky is always going to be my number one artist. Anti-Communist Regime Russian during the 60's? Sings delinquent songs to go against Soviet status quo? Double check. Nobody will ever be as cool to me as him.
