This book is a page-turner and a scathing takedown of Vladimir Putin. You shouldn't necessarily expect Masha Gessen to be objective given that she has been a journalist and activist in Russia for the past 20 years and many of her friends have been murdered or jailed. You have to admire this coura...
Kat had lingered just outside the entrance to the cathedral, and when she heard the guards radioing for police, she thought she should leave. She saw one of the other women walking out, and they fell into step, followed by the others. They walked across the plaza in front of the cathedral, down a...
A twenty-year-old man from Saudi Arabia was among the walking wounded—the dozens of people with burns, scratches, and bruises from being thrown who were making their way, with the assistance of uninjured runners, to the assembled ambulances. Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi, an English-language student wh...