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Ryan Ruby

Ryan Ruby is the author of Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry (Seven Stories Press, 2024) and The Zero and the One: A Novel (Twelve Books, 2017). For his essays and reviews, which have appeared in Granta, the New Left Review, and the New Statesman, he received the Silvers Prize in Literary Criticism. He lives in Berlin.    

Ryan Ruby is the author of Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry (Seven Stories Press, 2024) and The Zero and the One: A Novel (Twelve Books, 2017). For his essays and reviews, which have appeared in Granta, the New Left Review, and the New Statesman, he received the Silvers Prize in Literary Criticism. He lives in Berlin.    

The CIA: patron of the arts

The CIA: patron of the arts

Ryan Ruby

30 Dec 2025