Robert Rand has worked in journalism for more than three decades. He was senior editor of the weekend edition of NPR’s All Things Considered and has produced and reported stories and documentaries that have aired on NPR’s newsmagazines as well as other public radio platforms. He received, along with the staff of weekend All Things Considered, the Washington, D.C. Overseas Press Club’s Lowell Thomas Award for coverage of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. He was awarded a Fulbright Foundation Senior Journalism Fellowship to Japan and a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council, both of which supported the reporting for Tattered Kimonos in Japan. Rand is also author of four other books, and his print work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tablet Magazine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Wilson Quarterly. He is currently working on a new book to be called Walking Barefoot on a Knife’s Edge: Encounters at the Fault Line Between Power and Individual Lives in Russia. Based on decades of reporting on the former Soviet Union, the book examines, through individual stories, how fear from above has shaped lives in Russia—and how Kremlin intimidation has affected both the famous and the ordinary, shaping what they say, do, and risk.