Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible is a journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of oligarchs convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, Bohemian theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, supermodel sects, post-modern dictators, and playboy revolutionaries. This is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality,...

"After two and a half years as NPR's Moscow bureau chief, David Greene traveled along the Trans-Siberian Railway to capture an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin-style democracy. On his 6,000-mile train journey from Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok, Greene meets a group of singing babushkas from Buranovo, a teenager hawking "space rocks" from a meteor shower in Chelyabinsk, and an activist battling for environmental regulation...