We Agree About 12 Who Don’t Agree

“Panyushkin writes in vivid tableaux — for example, a scene in a cafe deep in the woods, the candles sputtering, the dissidents bent over their maps; a gray street in St. Petersburg, the banners and flags of the protesters waving against the line of OMON officers wielding truncheons.” From the LA Times’ review of Valery Panyushkin’s 12 Who Don’t Agree