Maggie Paxson

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Maggie Paxson is the author of Solovyovo: The Story of Memory in a Russian Village, as well as essays in the Washington Post, the Wilson Quarterly, and Aeon magazine. She has spent years studying societies shaped by conflict, particularly in the Russian north and the North Caucasus. The creator of The Bomb Shelter Café, a series of sing-along events inspired by the music of embattled communities during the Second World War, she is also a singer with the Imperial Palms Orchestra, one of the East Coast’s leading big bands.