He has worked as a professional journalist for two decades, beginning as a stringer in Moscow during the last years of the USSR. He spent a year reporting from the war zones of the former Soviet lands and Afghanistan before moving to Moscow as a staff correspondent for TIME. He is the author of two books of nonfiction, Black Earth and The Lost Spy, both published by W.W. Norton. He is currently working on a fourth book. Andrew also writes on U.S. and foreign affairs for publications including Harper’s, National Geographic, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Orion, Outside, The Washington Post, and Wired. He has appeared as a commentator on the BBC, CNN, and NPR, and has reported and written for PBS documentaries.