January 8, 2026 – “Reading his Paris Review interview, you sense that Buckley was more keen to discuss fiction than most people were to ask him about it.”

In Boston Review, the 2026 H.L. Mencken Memorial Lecture

Andrew Holter interviewed Tom Overton, author of a new biography, “John Berger: From Life,” out from Verso Books. In this fascinating discussion, Overton discusses his friendship with Berger, the biog...

August 6, 2026 – There is no better book for understanding Shiva Naipaul, a tragic figure whose name has long been associated with phrases like “unjustly overlooked,” “basically forgotten,” and “young...

His paintings reveal the value of looking carefully at the territory and the hazards of imperial misrepresentation

His paintings reveal the value of looking carefully at the territory and the hazards of imperial misrepresentation

For Boston Review, an interview with Dave Zirin about the life of Howard Zinn

His paintings reveal the value of looking carefully at the territory and the hazards of imperial misrepresentation

In Boston Review and French translation, Gaza + Vietnam, plus William F. Buckley, New Journalism, and prominent teeth...

Il faut lire ou relire les livres et reportages sur le Viêtnam alors que nous abordons une nouvelle ère d’illusions de guerre. «J’avoue que, à mon arrivée au Viêtnam, je recherchais surtout des inform...

For Places Journal, a trip into the tunnels under Chicago

Vivian Gornick, Mamdani and Orwell, the McCarran Act, Richard Brookhiser, National Review in the 90s, Charles Lane, Peter Sarsgaard as Charles Lane, and more...

In The Drift, the photo & text study of migrant workers, plus Jean Mohr + Edward Said, country doctors, Black Panthers, "radical chic"

A new piece in The Nation on the Dutch photographer, Joy Division, rock-as-religion

How Anton Corbijn’s photographs shaped the history of rock music.

Thirty years ago or more, when on my way home to Indiana or on my way back to England, I would stop off in New York City. Barbara Epstein would put me up

Remembering the legendary New York City reporter who wrote of the rot at the center of Donald Trump’s politics decades before his presidency.

About seven years ago, I decided that in my time outside of work I would read the ten or eleven thousand newspaper columns written by Murray Kempton, the distinguished American reporter who died in…

One of his generation’s most prolific journalists, Kempton never turned a blind eye to the inequalities all around him.

A definitive collection of the writings of legendary, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and reporter Murray Kempton (1917-1997), Going Around gathers dozens of columns, articles and essays, from The Ne...

I was supposed to fly to Vancouver the day of Trump’s military parade in Washington, but after he warned that any protesters in D.C. would “be met with very big force,” leaving for Canada suddenly fel...

The latest in our series of writers recommending comfort watches is a tribute to 1996’s charming restaurant-set comedy drama

We are met to consider the Misfits’ Legacy Of Brutality, a canonical American punk record released 40 years ago this month, but Glenn Danzig has left us no choice but to address the sonnenradin the ro...

Looking back at the novelist, social historian, crusader, and “political person.” 

Andrew Holter interviews Mitchell Abidor on Abidor's new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary, out from Pluto Press. "It seems like we in the English-speaking world, at least, have misunderstood s...

Andrew Holter revisits ‘The California Reich’ 50 years on and considers the legacy of the neo-Nazi documentary.

January 8, 2026 – “Reading his Paris Review interview, you sense that Buckley was more keen to discuss fiction than most people were to ask him about it.”

We praise Paul Weller for counterintuitively throwing down the gauntlet to fans and trusting collaborators on The Style Council's debut LP

Richard Hell's novel Godlike has just been re-released with a new afterword by New York Review Books. Andrew Holter spoke to Hell on his literary trajectory as a novelist and street poet, the sometime...

Born in Antigua in 1949, Jamaica Kincaid spent her first years in the United States as a teenage servant (her word, “au pairs” were white girls) before

When we rely on cameras to document state violence, how much are we actually relying on other people to do something when they see those images? How do we preserve the potency of these images and dire...

Reading Mary McCarthy on Vietnam in a new era of wartime illusions.

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