The Spy Who Funded Me: Review of Campaigning Culture in the LARB
In the Los Angeles Review of Books, I have a review of Campaigning Culture: The Journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, edited by Giles Scott-Smith and Charlotte Lerg. IN […]
Category Archives: Cold War
On the “Understanding Latin American Politics” podcast with Greg Weeks
I’m on podcast #33 of the very informative “Understanding Latin American Politics” podcast with Greg Weeks. We talk about how I got started doing the kind of work that I […]
Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America has won the 2017 Luciano Tomassini Prize
My book, Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America, was released on September 14, 2015 by Harvard University Press. It ships (Amazon, Powell’s). It can be purchased […]
“Literary Agents,” my review of Joel Whitney’s “Finks”
Up now at the New Republic (and in the January 2017 print edition), my review of Joel Whitney’s “Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers.” The introduction: Czeslaw […]
Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Without Illusions
I have a somewhat late-breaking obituary of Fidel Castro, up now at Dissent magazine. Rather than a straight obit, I’ve tried to take stock of the different responses to Fidel on […]
The Lost Poems of Pablo Neruda: A Conversation with Tess Taylor
The wonderful poet Tess Taylor and I had a conversation about “Then Come Back,” a collection of recently-discovered unpublished poems by Pablo Neruda. It is up now at the Barnes & Noble […]
Review of Rafael Rojas, “Fighting over Fidel”
My review, titled “Words are the Weapons, the Weapons Must Go,” of Rafael Rojas’s “Fighting over Fidel: The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution,” has appeared in the Los […]
