Keith Gessen is a founding editor of the magazine n+1 and a contributor to the New Yorker and the London Review of Books. He is the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men and the translator of Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich; It's No Good by Kirill Medvedev; and (with Anna Summers) There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.
