Assignment Moscow: latest media coverage
This week I spoke to Andrew Mueller on Monocle 24 about the ideas in Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russian from Lenin to Putin . You can listen to the interview here https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-briefing/2302/reporting-russia/ and you can read a review of the book by Ellie Holbrook in the current issue of...
Assignment Moscow: Russia’s Story From Lenin To Putin
I outlined some of my ideas from Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin in a recent piece for The Conversation. I am republishing it here. WHAT A CONTRAST IT WAS. In early May 2000, Vladimir Putin strode through the Kremlin’s gilded corridors, his progress relayed on...
Now Out: Assignment Moscow ‘Beautifully written, fascinating throughout’
MY NEW BOOK, Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin has now been published in the U.S. and the U.K. You can order copies, and read more about the book, here for the U.K, edition (here for the U.S. edition). These are the reviews so far “Reporting...
‘Assignment Moscow’: Interview On Talk Radio Europe
On Monday 20th July I was interviewed by Giles Brown on Talk Radio Europe about Assignment Moscow. You can hear the whole interview here on Talk Radio Europe’s On Demand Page, starting at 1030 on Monday 20th July....
Prize For My Essay On The Work Of Svetlana Alexievich
I am pleased and proud to announce that I have been awarded the 2019 International Association for Literary Journalism Studies John C. Hartsock Award for the best article published in the Association’s journal, Literary Journalism Studies. My article was entitled “Making Space for a New Picture of the World:...
London In Coronavirus Lockdown: A Tale Of Two Chinooks
AFTER NIGHTFALL, YOU SEE THE LIGHTS LINING UP. Coming to the end of my commute on a winter evening, I can look up and see plane after plane stretching away into the murk of the eastern sky. They follow one another to land at Heathrow to the west. Sometimes,...
For VE Day 75: Crossing A Continent Still Scarred By War
I STARTED MY LONGEST EVER OVERLAND JOURNEY on a London bus to Hammersmith. From there, I took the underground to St Pancras. On the Eurostar, I crossed the English channel below its busy shipping lanes. After an afternoon in Paris, I was at the Gare de l’Est, ticket in...
On The Eve Of Coronavirus Lockdown, A Walk Through London’s Diseased History
ALL THAT WEEK I HAD LOOKED FORWARD to a football match. Yet as the virus spread I knew there would be no game to watch. Sure enough, all Premier League games were postponed the day before. I think we all knew it was coming, but hoped for one last...
Vladimir Putin: 20 Years Of Telling A New Story Of Russia
On the 20th anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s first being elected president of Russia, I wrote for The Conversation about how Russia’s place in the world, and the technology used to tell its story, have changed since. You can read that piece here, and a complete text follows. It contains...