Zachary Snowdon Smith

Zachary Snowdon Smith is the editor of the Cordova Times newspaper in Cordova, Alaska. He previously headed Chess For The Gambia, an international youth development project.

3 Posts

When the Authorities Tell You to Dissent

And I was granted the chance to dip into a strange emerging culture, one whose existence I probably would not have accepted if I hadn’t seen it for myself. It seems the doomsayers are sometimes correct.

Zachary Snowdon Smith

22 May 2019 · 8 min read

The Fall of a Third-Rate Stalin

Dissidents who weren’t assassinated outright might end up in Mile 2 Prison. Only a handful of Mile 2 inmates actually faced lethal injection—the prison’s principal methods of execution were disease and malnutrition.

Zachary Snowdon Smith

24 Mar 2019 · 14 min read

Reading ‘Lolita’ in the West

The star of Lolita is not Lolita herself, but Humbert Humbert, who hides his obsession with adolescent girls under a mask of tweedy old-world erudition.

Zachary Snowdon Smith

26 Jan 2019 · 9 min read