Red Cavalry
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Feb 2026 on The Ezra Klein Show.
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George Saunders👍 Recommends
…book recommendation reflecting on chaos and changing perspectives on institutions
“And then the other one I would recommend, I maybe have recommended it before because I love it so much, but it's Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel, the Jewish Russian writer. And I think what speaks to me about that book right now, it's so chaotic. It's written from different points of view, and it doesn't really underscore who's speaking to you. And the kind of very, very understated through line of the book is this Jewish kid throws him at the revolution and they go back and forth over Poland mistreating Jews, you know, and mistreating everybody.”
The Ezra Klein Show — George Saunders on Anger, Ambition and Sinat 25:59
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