Joshua Yaffa
@yaffaesque
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Russia, Ukraine, and much more for @NewYorker. DMs open; write for Signal. Between Two Fires now in paperback: https://t.co/iWiSMHzvG3
Joined January 2012
Next week, on May 4th, the paperback of BETWEEN TWO FIRES will be published (with a new cover!), a book the NYT called "deep and revealing" and The Economist said is "wonderfully insightful." Hope to get a chance to talk more about it and all things Russia
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A new semester means fresh slate of events @Bard_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!
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My story in this week's @NewYorker: on the radical experiment of Marlene Engelhorn, an Austrian heiress who assembled a council of fifty strangers to give away her inheritance.
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A story we waited 491 days for. Evan is coming home. Surreal and beautiful words to write.
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Attention Frankfurt! The newly minted Pulitzer Prize winner @NathanThrall is on his way right now to speak at @nothilfe tonight. Join us if you’re in town or watch the livestream.
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In a sadly not unimaginable but deeply regrettable turn of events, the Union Club in Frankfurt *cancelled* my talk with @NathanThrall next Tuesday. The good news: we’ll be hosted by the wonderful team at Medico International instead. Join us!
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Berliner Freunde! A last reminder that I’ll be speaking with two remarkably talented and always interesting Russia watchers—@VALERIEinNYT and Svetlana Erpyleva—on Monday at @Bard_Berlin.
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Second is on May 6 w/@NathanThrall, a unique voice and humane, perceptive, challenging writer on Israel/Palestine. Rare chance to see him in Berlin.
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Attention Berlin friends! I'm holding two events on important subjects with super interesting people @Bard_Berlin in coming weeks. First is on April 29 w/@VALERIEinNYT and Svetlana Erpyleva of Public Sociology Laboratory.
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When your professor from back in the day becomes a mentor, colleague, friend, and now fellow podcast guest
What's Next for Putin's Russia? More of the same?@yaffaesque and I discuss with @AKendallTaylor and Jim Townsend on Brussel Sprouts @CNASdc .
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“He needs a certification…Proof he can hold up and say, yet again, ‘The country is behind me.’” My @NewYorker essay on Putin’s reelection this weekend and how two years of war has (and has not) recast Russian politics, society, economy.
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Link for Berlin talk and registration above. Here's the same for Munich the next day:
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RT @StankoNastya: Дорогі друзі, хто в Берліні, або Мюнхені - буду наступного тижня в цих двох прекрасних містах, які дуже люблю - приходьте….
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For those of you following the war over the last two years, and Ukraine long before that, you know what a gifted, special, and informed voice Nastya is. A rare chance to see her in Berlin on November 28. (And Munich on November 29!)
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Attention Berliners! On November 28 I’ll be speaking with @Bard_Berlin with the one and only @StankoNastya, who will talk about her singular reporting from Ukraine. More info and register here:
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War, especially a prolonged one with relentless suffering, makes everyone lose their heads. But this is silly and worthy of an apology. @shustry is a professional, judicious, courageous reporter who has been reporting on Ukraine for a decade-plus.
I am fine with dramatization of political life and appreciate narratives that I don't necessarily share, yet it seems that @TIME did let a Russian asset (even if an unwitting one) to profile the Ukrainian president.
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Happening now!
After witnessing the 2004 school siege in Beslan, @parfitt_tom walked 1,000 miles across the North Caucasus to examine the root of violence in the region. Tune in tomorrow @ noon for his discussion on memory & trauma w/ @yaffaesque
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My review and profile of @mirrorsbreath and her profoundly observed new book, published today.
In a new book, a Russian journalist attempts to work through how she missed—or failed to adequately react to—Russia’s descent into fascism, @yaffaesque writes.
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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 @NewYorker:
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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 @NewYorker:
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