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Keith Gessen
Author; Editor-In-Chief, n+1
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would you rather have a lexus or justice?
For the 12th year out of 20, J. D. Power and Associates have chosen a Lexus.
June 24, 2009, 11:47 AM
There has been some debate, in my head, about whether this car,...
There has been some debate, in my head, about whether this car, shown in all the (uncaptioned) photos of yesterday’s attack on the President of Ingushetia, was in fact the car the President was in. (He survived; two of his bodyguards were killed.) If this was his car, then why were there no photos of the other car—a Toyota Camry—that pulled up alongside him and exploded? And I now think the answer is that there’s just nothing left of that other car at all.
June 23, 2009, 10:20 AM
This is why government officials in Russia mess with the lights...
This is why government officials in Russia mess with the lights and clog up traffic in order to speed through town. I think that’s a Toyota Land Cruiser. It was part of the government motorcade attacked this morning in Ingushetia by a Camry packed with explosives.
June 22, 2009, 5:13 PM
A summer Sunday evening around nine is a pretty good time to be on the road—but still there was a bottleneck in front of the Leningrad train station. Is this where Anna Karenina threw herself under a train? No. Not quite. Still, there was a small traffic jam. “What the fuck?” said Igor. It really was a little puzzling. We crawled along, bit by bit. Finally there was some open space ahead, in another lane. Igor accelerated our Infiniti FX50 right into it, cutting off a sputtering old Moskvich. We saw the Moskvich’s driver, a man with a tan, weathered face and a little summer cap, as he looked reproachfully at us. “Kolkhoznik!” said Igor contemptuously—collective farm worker—and then we were free.
June 21, 2009, 6:22 PM
On summer weekends in Moscow, the traffic disappears. Cause for celebration? No. It just means the traffic has moved elsewhere, and you were not invited.
June 20, 2009, 5:16 AM
Keith Gessen is editor-in-chief of n+1, a twice-yearly magazine of literature, politics, and culture based in New York City.Gessen graduated from Harvard College and earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University in 2004. Gessen, who was born in Russia, has written about Russia for The Atlantic and the New York Review of Books. Gessen has also written about books for magazines including Dissent, Slate, and New York, where he was the regular book critic.His first novel, All the Sad Young Literary Men, was published in April 2008.
