Freedom Is Anathema To Dreams Nurtured In

Remember This... Develop A Sense Of Nostalgia For Something, Or You'll Never Figure Out What's Important.

If You Read Only One Memoir By A Disaffected, Urban, 20-something Jewish Girl This Year, Make It This One. Shukert Rocks The Lulav.

I Am Born Hungry. Ravenous. I Want To Eat The World, And I Can Never Be Satiated.

The Greatest Books In Russian Literature Are Satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, For Example, Is A Very Over-the-top Satire About Life In Russia. I Think It's The Thing We Do Best.

In A Strange Way, I Expected Russia To Become More Like America Since The Soviet Union Collapsed, But The Reverse Is True. America Has Become More Like Russia: A Kleptocratic Society.