Peter Pomerantsev | Granta Magazine

Peter Pomerantsev

Peter Pomerantsev is a Kiev-born writer and TV producer living in London. He is the author of Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible and This is Not Propaganda. His writing has appeared in several publications, including the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek.

Peter Pomerantsev on Granta.com

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

The Poetry Vaccine

Peter Pomerantsev

‘The quarantine and the closure of borders was giving my father Cold War flashbacks. And while Covid-19 was reducing life and death to statistics, father was using literature to affirm individuality.’

In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

In Conversation

Joanna Kavenna & Peter Pomerantsev

‘We are real in an unreal reality, which we’re told is really real and that we’re actually unreal.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 146 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 146 padlock

Normalnost

Peter Pomerantsev

‘Is there another way to look at the Russianisation of reality?’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 146
Essays & Memoir | Issue 146

Pay for Your Words

Peter Pomerantsev

Peter Pomerantsev downloads his Facebook data. ‘We seem to be caught in a trap: the more we use a word, the more we will be charged for it.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 146
Essays & Memoir | Issue 146

Pop-Up People

Peter Pomerantsev

We are living through a period of pop-up populism, where each political movement redefines ‘the Many’ and ‘the People’, where we are always reconsidering who counts as an ‘insider’ or an ‘outsider’, where what it means to belong is never certain.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 146
Essays & Memoir | Issue 146

The False Lords of Misrule

Peter Pomerantsev

Peter Pomerantsev takes us on a tour of the lewd, crude language of modern politics – from Trump to Putin to Duterte, Milo Yianopoulos, Boris Johnson and more.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 146
Essays & Memoir | Issue 146

Why We’re Post-Fact

Peter Pomerantsev

‘We are living in a ‘post-fact’ or ‘post-truth’ world. Not merely a world where politicians and media lie – they have always lied – but one where they don’t care whether they tell the truth or not.’

In Conversation | Issue 146
In Conversation | Issue 146

Podcast: The Legacy of Communism

Philip Ó Ceallaigh, Peter Pomerantsev & Oliver Bullough

Listen to Oliver Bullough, Peter Pomerantsev and Philip Ó Ceallaigh at the launch of Granta 134: No Man’s Land discuss the legacy of communism in eastern Europe.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 134
Essays & Memoir | Issue 134

Propagandalands

Peter Pomerantsev

From 2016: Peter Pomerantsev reports from Ukraine’s Donbas region.

Granta magazine is run by the Granta Trust (charity number 1184638)

The copyright to all contents of this site is held either by Granta or by the individual authors, and none of the material may be used elsewhere without written permission. For reprint enquiries, contact us.

  • Granta
  • 12 Addison Avenue
  • London W11 4QR
  • United Kingdom
  • Tel +44(0)20 7605 1360