The long, gruesome story of Wagner, from Ukraine to Africa and the oil fields of Syria and back to Ukraine again, where it sent thousands of convicts into the "meat grinder." And then, fatefully, on the march to Moscow. My piece in this week's The New Yorker: newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

The rise and fall of Yevgney Prigozhin is one of the signal tales of the Putin era: ambition, brutality, cynicism, a system losing its centrifugal force and trying to retain it at all costs. My postscript on the founder of Wagner for The New Yorker: newyorker.com/news/postscrip…

My review and profile of Elena Kostyuchenko and her profoundly observed new book, published today. x.com/NewYorker/stat…

Happening now! x.com/HarrimanInst/s…

War, especially a prolonged one with relentless suffering, makes everyone lose their heads. But this is silly and worthy of an apology. Simon Shuster is a professional, judicious, courageous reporter who has been reporting on Ukraine for a decade-plus. x.com/k_sonin/status…

Дорогі друзі, хто в Берліні, або Мюнхені - буду наступного тижня в цих двох прекрасних містах, які дуже люблю - приходьте, поговоримо, посумуємо). Обіцяю бути дуже відвертою

“He needs a certification…Proof he can hold up and say, yet again, ‘The country is behind me.’” My The New Yorker essay on Putin’s reelection this weekend and how two years of war has (and has not) recast Russian politics, society, economy. newyorker.com/news/the-weeke…

When your professor from back in the day becomes a mentor, colleague, friend, and now fellow podcast guest x.com/AngelaStent/st…

Free Evan!

Berliner Freunde! A last reminder that I’ll be speaking with two remarkably talented and always interesting Russia watchers—Valerie Hopkins and Svetlana Erpyleva—on Monday at Bard College Berlin. berlin.bard.edu/events/watchin…

In a sadly not unimaginable but deeply regrettable turn of events, the Union Club in Frankfurt *cancelled* my talk with Nathan Thrall next Tuesday. The good news: we’ll be hosted by the wonderful team at Medico International instead. Join us! berlin.bard.edu/events/life-de…

Attention Frankfurt! The newly minted Pulitzer Prize winner Nathan Thrall is on his way right now to speak at medico international tonight. Join us if you’re in town or watch the livestream. medico.de/termin/2024-05…

A story we waited 491 days for. Evan is coming home. Surreal and beautiful words to write. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…

My story in this week's The New Yorker: on the radical experiment of Marlene Engelhorn, an Austrian heiress who assembled a council of fifty strangers to give away her inheritance. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

A new semester means fresh slate of events Bard College Berlin. First up on Sep 27: a discussion of the politics of memory (or absence and denial of historical memory) in Germany and Russia, and what that means for politics and society today. Berliners, join us! berlin.bard.edu/events/politic…