“I would also recommend, even though the author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015, Svetlana Alexievich, people may know her as the author of the Chernobyl Diaries, which was basically pillaged by the makers of the HBO show Chernobyl. The book Secondhand Time completely turned my head around and made me realize that I had been writing about Russia all wrong.”
Why: It completely turned my head around and made me realize that I had been writing about Russia all wrong.
Julia Ioffe, Guest on Conversations with TylerJulia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy
