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In Silenced Voices, @lucyjpop turns her attention to the journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva, and the historian and activist Yuri Dmitriev, both of whom have been 'imprisoned on trumped-up charges' in Russia.

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https://literaryreview.co.uk/svetlana-prokopyeva-yuri-dmitriev

'His books ... seemed to anticipate the America that was throbbing all around me, with its violence and disappointments, its spiritual emptiness, its foolishness and its freaks.'

@PaulTheroux_ on the lure of Nathanael West.

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