Welcome to my new and improved website, complete with my oddly huge headshot on this page!

I’m thrilled to announce that on January 31, 2017, St. Martin’s Press will publish my first non-collaborative book, Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys Across a Changing Russia. The book chronicles my 20 years’ worth of interviews with ordinary Russians, from research scientists on Lake Baikal, to the Jewish community of Birobidzhan, to a group of gay friends in Novosibirsk, to a maverick farmer in Buryatia.

Please join me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and in real life for a coffee sometime. Also, you can pre-order Bears here, here, here or here.