Andrew Holter
@andrewholter.bsky.social
Writer, historian, andrewholter.com. Editor of Going Around: Selected Journalism by Murray Kempton (Seven Stories Press). 'Stackin at substack.com/@andrewholter
I considered the strangeness at work here:
Bill Buckley’s “Art of Fiction” by Andrew Holter
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.”
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The Paris Review@parisreview.bsky.social · 3d ago“I’d like to see more novels not written by people who have all the time in the world to write them.” —William F. Buckley Jr. buff.ly/qtKq5rt
Very pleased to have the 2026 Mencken Memorial Lecture printed in @bostonreview.bsky.social. Tried to think some about Mencken's messiness and his distinction in our present era of revived "100% Americanism"
Boston Review@bostonreview.bsky.social · 5d ago“There were many Menckens: some confounding, some repellent, some still bracing as we confront the iniquities of a nation that remains, as he wrote during the last Roaring Twenties, ‘the greatest show on earth.’” @andrewholter.bsky.social on “social outrage” in this age of American sadism:
Ways of Seeing is maybe the most influential piece of television in my life, instantly need to track this down
Protean Magazine@proteanmag.com · 2w agoAndrew Holter interviewed Tom Overton, author of a new biography, “John Berger: From Life,” out from @versobooks.bsky.social. In this fascinating discussion, Overton discusses his friendship with Berger, the biography’s literary approach, Berger on Gaza, and more. proteanmag.com/2026/09/23/t...
For @proteanmag.com I had the pleasure of interviewing Tom Overton about his new @versobooks.bsky.social biography of John Berger, which I've been awaiting for years
Tom Overton on John Berger: From Life • Protean Magazine
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...
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Wrote a bit about Shiva Naipaul and Jonestown for @parisreview.bsky.social
No More Missionaries: Shiva Naipaul’s Jonestown by Andrew Holter
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...
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No American artist has looked more intently at Greenland than Kent did, but he was not the first to paint it. https://bit.ly/4xSpCTz
Rockwell Kent’s View From Greenland
His paintings reveal the value of looking carefully at the territory and the hazards of imperial misrepresentation
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Wrote a little in @thenation.com about Rockwell Kent's paintings of Greenland, which amount to the most any American artist has ever looked at the place
Rockwell Kent’s View From Greenland
His paintings reveal the value of looking carefully at the territory and the hazards of imperial misrepresentation
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A little reflection on Howard Zinn after my interview with his biographer, @edgeofsports.bsky.social, published in @bostonreview.bsky.social this week
The People's Champ: Zirin on Zinn
For Boston Review, an interview with Dave Zirin about the life of Howard Zinn
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Pleased to have two new pieces out today, the first an interview with @edgeofsports.bsky.social about his new biography of Howard Zinn in @bostonreview.bsky.social...
Boston Review@bostonreview.bsky.social · 4mo agoHas any book drawn more Americans leftward over the last 50 years than A People’s History of the United States? Conservatives are still saying the damage done by the book will take decades to remediate. @arh12.bsky.social interviews @edgeofsports.bsky.social about his new biography of Howard Zinn:
Over at andrewholter.substack.com they're giving away full-size candy bars and musings on Mary McCarthy and New Journalism
Why war? Mary McCarthy's Vietnam, in France
In Boston Review and French translation, Gaza + Vietnam, plus William F. Buckley, New Journalism, and prominent teeth...
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Very pleased to have a piece about Mary McCarthy and reporting in Vietnam and Gaza in this new issue of @bostonreview.bsky.social alongside very strong minds
Boston Review@bostonreview.bsky.social · 6mo agoOur new issue, FOREVER WARS, heads to press soon. Featuring a roundtable on Iran with @peymanjafari.bsky.social, Ali Kadivar, Manijeh Moradian, @naghmehs.bsky.social, @alexshams.bsky.social. Plus @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @harshawalia.bsky.social @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social +
Did you know there's a network of pedestrian tunnels beneath downtown Chicago, spanning more than 40 city blocks? The Pedway (short for "Pedestrianway") connects 50 buildings through a patchwork of underground tunnels and ground-floor lobbies. Many Chicagoans don't even know it exists. (1/🧵)
For @placesjournal.bsky.social I spent some time in the fascinating but incoherent pedestrian tunnel system under downtown Chicago
Places Journal@placesjournal.bsky.social · 5mo ago“The Pedway is not a disgrace. To saunter through its corridors is to immerse oneself in the archaeology of downtown Chicago. It’s a glimpse of the city at its interstices: above & below ground, municipal & corporate, 20th century & 21st.” @arh12.bsky.social on Chicago’s subterranean Pedestrianway:
It's been a year since the publication of Going Around, the collection of Murray Kempton's journalism I edited for @sevenstories.bsky.social. I took a beat to reflect and riff on columnists, old copies of National Review, Vivian Gornick, the 2003 film Shattered Glass, Orwell + Mamdani, and more
Columnists! Murray Kempton's 21st century (so far)
Vivian Gornick, Mamdani and Orwell, the McCarran Act, Richard Brookhiser, National Review in the 90s, Charles Lane, Peter Sarsgaard as Charles Lane, and more...
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I'm in the new @thedriftmag.com with a bit on the @versobooks.bsky.social edition of John Berger and Jean Mohr's A Seventh Man
super cool piece about Corbijn, whose extremely strange hitman movie The American is one of my favorites
The Nation Magazine@thenation.com · 6mo agoHow Anton Corbijn’s photographs shaped the history of rock music. https://bit.ly/4sHkrmm
New in the @thenation.com I wrote about the photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn, who elevated "rock photography" into fine art and whose work engages big questions about why we take pop musicians (maybe too) seriously
Rock and Roll’s Dutch Old Master
How Anton Corbijn’s photographs shaped the history of rock music.
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I'm not really on here, but I'm going to indulge in a little rank self-promotion by posting the link to substack.com/@andrewholter along with a few things I've had published since this time last year...
Andrew Holter | Substack
I'm a writer and a(n) historian. My clips are at andrewholter.com and you can reach me at arholter@gmail.com.
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