Portions of this work appeared in the following publications in different form:
Chapter 1: Travel + Leisure, The New York Times, The New Yorker
Chapter 2: New York
Chapter 4: Travel + Leisure; Made in Russia: Unsung Icons of Soviet Design, edited by Michael Idov (Rizzoli); The Threepenny Review
Chapter 6: The New Yorker
Chapter 7: an essay first published privately and then in New York magazine’s My First New York (Ecco); The Threepenny Review
Chapter 8: The Threepenny Review, The New Yorker
Chapter 9: The Threepenny Review
Chapter 10: The Threepenny Review, Granta
Chapter 11: Gourmet, The New York Times Magazine, The Threepenny Review
Chapter 12: The New Yorker, The Threepenny Review
Chapter 13: The New Yorker
Chapter 14: The Threepenny Review
Chapter 15: The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker
Chapter 16: The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker
Chapter 17: The New York Times Magazine
Chapter 18: The New York Times Magazine
Chapter 21: GQ
Chapter 23: GQ, Granta, The New Yorker
Chapter 24: GQ, The New Yorker, Travel + Leisure