gary shteyngart

‘Lake Success’: It’s All About Your State of Mind

‘Lake Success’: It’s All About Your State of Mind

If you wade into Lake Success, or even just repose on its banks, are you primed for a life of achievement and glory, similar to the way taking a dip in the River Styx renders you invulnerable?

‘Lake Success’ Is a Picaresque Journey to Nowhere

‘Lake Success’ Is a Picaresque Journey to Nowhere

Gary Shteyngart's state of the nation satire about a billionaire on the run doesn't tell us much about anything.

Marxism: The Music Theory That Never Goes Out of Style

‘Super Sad True Love Story’, Or, The Unbearable Lightness of Being Lenny Abramov

‘The Russian Debutante’s Handbook’ by Gary Shteyngart