EVENT UPDATE 2/12/25: Due to the severe weather advisory, Literary Arts has rescheduled the Feb. 13 Portland Arts & Lectures event with Masha Gessen for Thursday, May 8, 2025. 

Please hold on to your tickets as the barcodes will automatically transfer to this new date. For more information, or if you have additional questions, please reach out to [email protected].

This event is part of our 40th season of Portland Arts & Lectures. A series subscription must be purchased to attend this event.

For more information on the season, please see our FAQs or reach out to us at [email protected].

Masha Gessen is a Russian American author, activist, translator, and journalist. They’ve written 11 books, including Surviving Autocracy, The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction). They’ve written for many US publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The New Yorker. Gessen is a distinguished professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and a distinguished visiting writer at Bard College. They live in New York with their wife and children.