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The Spy Who Funded Me: Review of Campaigning Culture in the LARB

June 12, 2017by patrickiber Leave a comment

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 […]

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Cold War, Essays, Intellectuals, LARB, propaganda, writing

On the “Understanding Latin American Politics” podcast with Greg Weeks

May 11, 2017by patrickiber Leave a comment

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 […]

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Cold War, higher ed, Intellectuals, Latin America

Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America has won the 2017 Luciano Tomassini Prize

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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 […]

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CIA, Cold War, Intellectuals, Latin America, political economy, propaganda, US and the World, writing

Socialism’s Return, in The Nation

February 21, 2017by patrickiber Leave a comment

In my debut in The Nation‘s Books & the Arts section, I have an essay based on a reading of Bernie Sanders’s two campaign books and two volumes of essays by the left-wing […]

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Essays, Intellectuals, political economy, The Nation, United States, writing

“Literary Agents,” my review of Joel Whitney’s “Finks”

January 4, 2017by patrickiber Leave a comment

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 […]

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Cold War, Intellectuals, New Republic, Reviews, US and the World, writing

The Lost Poems of Pablo Neruda: A Conversation with Tess Taylor

August 10, 2016by patrickiber Leave a comment

The wonderful poet Tess Taylor and I had a conversation about “Then Come Back,” a collection of recently-discovered unpublished poems by Pablo Neruda.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 […]

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Chile, Cold War, Intellectuals, Latin America, Reviews, writing

How Karl Polanyi makes sense of our politics

May 23, 2016by patrickiber 4 Comments

Update 2/20/2017: I have a related essay in the Chronicle Review, assessing Gareth Dale’s Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left. Karl Polanyi’s arguments keep getting trotted out, thought I, without […]

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Dissent, Intellectuals, political economy, writing

Review of Rafael Rojas, “Fighting over Fidel”

May 3, 2016by patrickiber Leave a comment

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 […]

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Cold War, Cuba, Intellectuals, LARB, Latin America, Reviews, writing

A review of Jorge García Robles, “At the End of the Road: Jack Kerouac in Mexico”

January 7, 2016by patrickiber Leave a comment

This review will appear in the Journal of Latin American Studies; at least until it does, I’m reasonably certain that I can host it here. Jorge García-Robles, At the End […]

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Intellectuals, Mexico, Reviews, US and the World, writing

The Two Lefts of Jorge Castañeda

January 7, 2016by patrickiber Leave a comment

Update 5/3/2016: this essay has been published in Spanish by Nexos. I’m honored to be making my debut in Dissent, a magazine I greatly admire. To my mind, Irving Howe navigated […]

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Dissent, Essays, Intellectuals, Latin America, Mexico, writing

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