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Nick Taussig

British novelist and film producer

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Putin, a modern day Stalin

14th March 20133rd March 2020 Nick Taussig 3 mins read

Masha Gessen, the Russian journalist, wrote a very important book last year, published by Granta in the UK. The Man Without a Face is a devastating portrait […]

Blog, Featured_home, Film, Russia, The Distinguished Assassin

Screen heroes under totalitarian rule

14th March 2013 epitone 3 mins read

Totalitarianism is a political system in which the state holds total authority over society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life […]

Blog, Featured_home, Film, Russia, The Distinguished Assassin

The marks of a thief-in-law

14th March 20133rd March 2020 epitone 2 mins read

Brought to popular western culture in the contemporary film Eastern Promises directed by David Cronenberg, and now on display at the Saatchi Gallery in the […]

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Why I wrote “The Distinguished Assassin”

14th March 20133rd March 2020 epitone 4 mins read

As a postgraduate student of Russian literature at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies in 1995, I will never forget […]

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Maxima Mea Culpa

14th September 2012 epitone 2 mins read

Alex Gibney’s new documentary, Maxima Mea Culpa, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, casts a critical eye on the issue of […]

Blog, Featured_home, Fiction, Literature, On Writing

What constitutes a really great work of fiction?

10th August 2012 epitone 2 mins read

We have all done it, set down eagerly to read a new book and come away disappointed after the first few pages. It is not […]

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“Don Don”, a review by D. Hansford

12th April 20123rd March 2020 epitone 1 min read

“I was recommended to read this book by a friend and I can honestly say I couldn’t put it down. It’s a wonderful story with […]

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“Don Don”, a review by Wallada Barnes

11th April 20123rd March 2020 epitone 1 min read

“Don Don is a perfect entertaining book for me, spirituality and fiction. The book makes sense in many ways: the characters, Buddhism, Thai lives etc. […]

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“Don Don”, a review by :D

11th April 20123rd March 2020 epitone 1 min read

“Just finished Don Don… finished it in less than 8 hours… very interesting and enlightening… still thinking of the characters.. the author has used a […]

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“Don Don”, a review by Poornima Sasidharan

5th April 20123rd March 2020 epitone 1 min read

“Borrowed your book Don Don from the library yesterday…started reading it some ten minutes back…had to find you out fast and tell you that I […]

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