The New York Review of Books
Album from Hell
March 24, 2005
A review of "Gulag," a book of photographs.

The New Republic
How Evil Works (PDF)
December 27, 2004

The New York Review of Books
Pulling the Rug Out from Under 
February 12, 2004

The New York Review of Books
The Worst of the Terror
July 17, 2003

The New York Review of Books
After the Gulag
October 24, 2002

Slate
The Gulag Argumento
August 13, 2002
Martin Amis swings at Stalin
and hits his own best friend instead.

The New York Review of Books
A History of Horror
October 18, 2001
A review of "Le Siècle des Camps."

The Spectator
The Great Error
July 28, 2001
The most unpleasant city in Russia
-and why no one wants to leave it.

The New York Review of Books
Inside the Gulag
June 15, 2000
What we know now that we didn't know ten years ago.

The Weekly Standard
Ethnic Cleansing, Russian Style
December 20, 1999
The Chechen wars of the 1990s were not the first time Moscow targetted the Chechens.

The Weekly Standard
Dead Souls: Tallying the Victims of Communism
December 13, 1999
 A review of "The Black Book of Communism."

The Washington Post
Blinded By What We Saw At the Wall
November 7, 1999
On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Sunday Telegraph
The Three Lives of Helena Brus
December 6, 1998
A Polish Communist, resident in Britain, was accused of Stalinist-era war crimes.
Her extradition became a matter for British justice.

The New Criterion
A Dearth of Feeling
October, 1996
An essay about the absence of memory of communist crimes.