sentences:  Writing in a language other than his mother tongue, in the tradition of Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov, with every line of his prose Navrozov seeks to demonstrate that a free intellect, moving as it does above party-controlled politics and mass-produced ethics, is its own justification and the abiding aim of a writer in any epoch.In 2009 Navrozov was asked by Vladimir Yakovlev, then heading the new Russian multimedia project "Snob," to join the publication as one its six weekly columnists, alongside Ivan Okhlobystin, Maxim Kantor, Valery Panyushkin, Michael Idov and Anton Nosik.His "Writer's Diary" column ran until December 2010, when all the columnists were reorganised out of existence by Yakovlev's successor, Masha Gessen.