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Jon Fasman covers the American South for The Economist and is the author of two novels set primarily in the former Soviet Union: “The Geographer’s Library” and “The Unpossessed City.”

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2013

The Unpossessed is the latest news from the U. S. "intellectual" front.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unpossessed of conscience or moral instinct, you might have mastered the world, broken it to your hand. 

From The Sea Wolf by London, Jack