“Language Is Never the Enemy”: Why I Will Not Write in Russian as Long as Putin Is in Power

There are maybe two or three screenwriters in Hollywood who can switch between English and Russian at will, and I am one of them. This is not a self-aggrandizing statement—no evidence suggests I’m a genius in either. Still, I have been writing for a living for 30 years, since the age of 15, when a daily newspaper rather bewilderingly printed a sci-fi short story of mine. And these are the hardest words I have ever had to write in all these years, because they feel like lopping off half of my brain in public: As long as Vladimir Putin remains… Read Full Article