I’m the author of three books: Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, and The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov. I think of them as the Zembla trilogy, and here’s why.

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Things are tough out there. Take care of one another.