Oct 4, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min · 20 segments
Catch all of the past week's great guests in one place. Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent Evan Gershkovich joins Jon Stewart to talk about his new memoir, “This Cursed Beautiful Land: A…
Evan GershkovichGuest
I mean, I was working here in New York as a reporter, uh, well, I guess as a news assistant.

And Russia, I think, has drawn reporters for forever because of how fascinating it is.

Things are always happening, developing, and so I was seeking out reporting opportunities, and I had colleagues at the...

I was working at The New York Times, and colleagues were like, "You speak Russian.

You spoke Russian at home, you know, go take advantage of that." And there was an English language outlet working back then in Russia called The Moscow Times.

I went over there, and it was incredibly fascinating when I got there, in 2017, that was.
The writing that you have, I think we obviously have a caricature in this country about what Russia's like, in the way that I think you sort of anywhere you live in Middle America, they think of New York as, "Well, you can't even walk.
I was stabbed four times on the..." You know, and then they get here and go like-
[laughs]

I mean, I was working here in New York as a reporter, uh, well, I guess as a news assistant.

And Russia, I think, has drawn reporters for forever because of how fascinating it is.

Things are always happening, developing, and so I was seeking out reporting opportunities, and I had colleagues at the...

I was working at The New York Times, and colleagues were like, "You speak Russian.

You spoke Russian at home, you know, go take advantage of that." And there was an English language outlet working back then in Russia called The Moscow Times.

I went over there, and it was incredibly fascinating when I got there, in 2017, that was.
The writing that you have, I think we obviously have a caricature in this country about what Russia's like, in the way that I think you sort of anywhere you live in Middle America, they think of New York as, "Well, you can't even walk.
I was stabbed four times on the..." You know, and then they get here and go like-
[laughs]
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