The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation

7 best books like The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation (Oliver Bullough): Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction, The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe, 球状闪电, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

Author	Peter Pomerantsev
ISBN	1610394550

In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show.

Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell’s Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and oligarch revolutionaries: welcome...

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

Author	Kapka Kassabova
ISBN	1555977863

In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West...

Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

Author	Judith Grisel
ISBN	0385542844

From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, an authoritative and accessible guide to understanding drug addiction: clearly explained brain science and vivid personal stories reveal how addiction happens, show why specific drugs--from opioids to alcohol to coke and...

The Complete Works of Isaac Babel

Author	Isaac Babel
ISBN	0393328244

Finally in paperback, this "monumental collection; gathers all of Babel's deft and brutal writing, including a wide array of previously unavailable material, from never-before-translated stories to plays and film scripts" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times). Reviewing the work in The New Republic,...

On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe

Author	Andrzej Stasiuk
ISBN	0151012717

Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveler. His journeys take him from his native Poland to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, and Ukraine. By car, train, bus, ferry. To small towns and villages with unfamiliar-sounding yet strangely evocative names. “The...

球状闪电

Author

Liu Cixin

3.5/5 stars

Cixin Liu greatly examined the effects of obsession, science, and weaponry in Ball Lightning.

I’m a fan of Cixin Liu’s Remembrance of Earth Past trilogy. The second book in that series, The Dark Forest remains in my personal top three sci-fi novels of all time and will...

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

Author	Peter Pomerantsev
ISBN	1541762118

When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war.

We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our...