JOELWHITNEY

RECENT WRITINGS
At Boston Review: Wounded Knee’s Radical Legacy: Fifty years ago, the American Indian Movement occupied the site of a historic massacre. They won real gains in the face of brutal counterinsurgency tactics

At Public Books: Mr. President: A Novel the C.I.A. Spent a Fortune to Suppress

At Jacobin: "Embodiment": Angela Davis in Los Angeles & San Francisco

At Jacobin: "Universal Language": Diego Rivera in San Francisco

At Jacobin: "Wake Up, America!": Paul Robeson in Peekskill

At The Baffler: Our Man in Hollywood, Graham Greene, Vietnam & the C.I.A.

At Poetry Foundation: The Violent Years:
The Oppens, the Cold War & the F.B.I.

In Jacobin: Lorraine Hansberry, Tailed by the F.B.I.; Censored by the C.I.A.

In Jacobin: The Murder of
Malcolm X, the F.B.I. & N.Y.P.D.

In Jacobin: There is No Writer Quite
Like Arundhati Roy, May 20, 2020

In The Baffler: Propaganda,
Anti-Propaganda, Dec. 6, 2019

In Truthdig, How Democrats Sowed the Seeds of the Border Crisis, Aug 29, 2019

At Poetry Foundation, Pablo Neruda's Exile Marked the Cold War's First Global Manhunt, July 8, 2019 (more)

_____________________praise for Finks_____________________

“Riveting.”
-Kirkus
“A fascinating mix of political history [&] literary history.”
-New York Times
“A revelation.”
-Arundhati Roy
“An essential book.”
-Los Angeles Review of Books
“A powerful warning.”
-The New Republic

PRAISE

"Listen to this book, because it talks in a very clear way about what has been silenced." —John Berger, author of Ways of Seeing and winner of the Man Booker Prize

"Another odd episode steps out from the Cold War's shadows. Riveting."
--Kirkus, Starred Review

"The CIA's covert financial support of highbrow art & fiction may seem like a quaint, even endearing, chapter in its otherwise grim history of coups, assassinations, and torture. In Finks, Joel Whitney argues otherwise and shines a discomfiting spotlight on this obscure corner of the cultural Cold War. The result is both an illuminating read and a cautionary tale about the potential costs—political and artistic—of accommodating power."
—Ben Wizner, Director of Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, ACLU

PRAISE

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