This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian-American Story

The revelatory, much-anticipated memoir from the Wall Street Journal reporter who was wrongly imprisoned in Putin's Russia for more than a year-a glimpse inside the perils and contradictions of a country in the midst of autocracy

“[Gershkovich's] memoir is proof that even during that harrowing time, his reporter's eye remained as sharp as ever.”-The New York Times, “The Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026”

In March 2023, a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, Evan Gershkovich met ...