Keith Gessen was born in Russia and educated at Harvard. He was the books columnist for Feedmag.com in 2000-2001, and has since written for Dissent, the Nation, the New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books. He was the regular book critic for New York in 2005. His translation of Voices from Chernobyl won the National Book Critics Circle award for Nonfiction in 2005. His first book, All the Sad Young Literary Men, was published by Viking in 2008.

Contributions to n+1 (print version)

Issue One

"Eggers, Teen Idol"

Vladimir Sorokin's "The Norm" (translator)

"End-Note"

Issue Two

"The Vice President's Daughter"

Issue Three

Ludmila Petrushevskaya's "Two Fairy Tales" (translator, with Anya Gessen)

Issue Four

"Money" (in Symposium on American Writing Today)

Issue Five

"Torture and the Known Unknowns"

Issue Six

Poems by Kirill Medvedev (translator)

Other Publications

"Under Siege" (Vassily Grossman)

"The Revolutionist" (Alexander Herzen)

"Subversive Activities" (Druzhnikov, Pelevin, Sorokin in the post-Soviet space) (subscription required)

"Growing Up All Wrong" (Martin Amis in 2003) (sub. required)

"Professor of Desire" (Philip Roth's Dying Animal) (sub. required)

"De-Listed" (William Dean Howells and Henry James)

"Monumental Foolishness" (Eduard Limonov, the new Russian right)

"His Jewish Problem" (Philip Roth's Plot Against America)

"Last Exit to Baghdad" (Iraq soldier memoirs, late 2005)

"Dinosaur on Ice" (Darius Kaspraitis of the New York Rangers)