Nadya Williams

Nadya Williams holds a Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University. She is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church (2023) and Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic (2024). She is also book review editor at Current and writes a weekly newsletter at nadyawilliams.substack.com.

Posts by Nadya Williams

December 10, 2024

The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny

On February 16, 2024, Alexei Navalny died under mysterious circumstances in the remote Siberian penal colony to which he was moved in late 2023. Founder and leader of the Anti- Corruption Foundation, Navalny was a long-time dissident and one of the most vocal critics of Putin’s regime over the past two decades, so his suspicious death was no surprise to anyone remotely acquainted with contemporary Russian politics. Continue Reading...

October 23, 2024

You Are Not in Control: The Death of Boethius 1,500 Years On

In a prison dank and dark, somewhere outside the town of Pavia in northern Italy, a middle-aged man whiles away his final days, writing. His execution looms, and he knows it. Continue Reading...