Lucas Bogs About The Future is History
Game recognizes game, as the young people say. Excellent face concealment! As you may have guessed from previous blog entries, my fiction reading habits tend toward genre and escapist material. However, as a non-fiction reader, these days I find myself more inclined to tackle subjects that are inescapably tied to the problems of the real world. So let's talk about Masha Gessen's The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia . Before reading this book, I knew Gessen mainly from her appearances on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee . So all I really knew was that she was a sharp-witted Russian journalist and activist who had fled the country. Having read the book, I now know that she is both a skilled prose writer and an excellent journalist. However, as the book is not about her, I had to do some quick googling to obtain a little biographical info for this review. Per Wikipedia: Masha Gessen was born into a Jewish family in the Soviet Union in 1967, but lived i...