Tag: Sophie Pinkham
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The Long Read Pioneer: How Pelevin’s Russia Shaped 2025’s Moral Compass
Introduction: The Best of the Long Read in 2025 As readers hunt for essays that fuse literary craft with pressing reality, 2025’s standout long-form pieces reveal a shared ambition: to illuminate the hidden undercurrents of power, culture, and society. Among them, Sophie Pinkham’s examination of Victor Pelevin—”The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and…
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The Long Read of 2025: Pelevin’s Russia and the Moral Decay He Predicted
Introduction: A Predictive Voice in a Turbulent Era Among the most striking voices in late 20th-century and early 21st-century Russian literature is Victor Pelevin. Famed for fusing satire, philosophy, and postmodern flair, Pelevin became a kind of literary weather vane: a writer whose visions of power, media, and identity felt unsettlingly prophetic as Vladimir Putin’s…