A newsletter that connects literature and the present moment.
Author of The Unmooring, a historical novel about America in the 1960s; journalist who covered Washington, post-Soviet Russia, wars and political campaigns.
democracy and dictatorship, Russia and Ukraine, America and Europe, local and global, past and present
The name of this newsletter comes from a line from Arthur Miller's great play, "Death of a Salesman." It's about the things we need to talk and care about. I write about culture, politics and the human experience.