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Kidnapping on the Moscow Express
Chapter One of The Soviet Jew.
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Yasha Levine
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May 2023
The Homeless
Listen now (102 min) | We’re leaving San Francisco next month and decided to record an episode about Haight-Ashbury, where we’ve lived for the last year…
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia Kovda
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Introduction to The Soviet Jew
Realizing I'm part of the story.
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Yasha Levine
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Quick note about podcast settings
A couple of days ago, I changed some internal Substack options to separate out The Russians as its own unique “Section” — the idea is for the pod to…
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Yasha Levine
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Bakhmut memories
I keep forgetting I visited Bakhmut once. It was nine years ago, when Bakhmut was still called by its Soviet name: Artemovsk.
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No escape from Palo Alto
Listen now (106 min) | We talk to Malcolm Harris, a journalist and author of the new book Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World…
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Evgenia Kovda
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Yasha Levine
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Mary Harrington's Joyless Utopia
Listen now (117 min) | For the first half hour we talk about the Ukrainian war and the attempted assassination of Russian novelist Zakhar Prilepin. Then…
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Evgenia Kovda
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Yasha Levine
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Against the Vortex w/Anthony Galluzzo
Listen now (105 min) | We have our friend Anthony Galuzzo on to talk about his upcoming book, Against the Vortex: Zardoz and Degrowth Utopias in the…
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Evgenia Kovda
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Yasha Levine
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Weaponized immigrants, zombie films: an interview
A few months ago I was interviewed by Will McDonald about my ongoing attempts to write my weaponized immigrant memoir, The Soviet Jew. The interview…
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Yasha Levine
Hyperion and boring techno futures
I’ve been going through some of the sci-fi books that I read as a kid — books that had been sitting in my parents’ garage for the last twenty-plus…
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Yasha Levine
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April 2023
Immigrant Parenting w/Keith Gessen
Listen now | Evgenia and I have Keith Gessen on to talk about Raising Raffi, his new book about being a dad and raising his son as a “Russian” in…
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Evgenia Kovda
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Yasha Levine
Inheritance (teaser)
Watch now (2 min) | A Soviet zombie film by Evgenia Kovda.
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