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

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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

A little reflection on Howard Zinn after my interview with his biographer, @edgeofsports.bsky.social, published in @bostonreview.bsky.social this week

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...

Over at andrewholter.substack.com they're giving away full-size candy bars and musings on Mary McCarthy and New Journalism

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

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

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

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

Here's my piece on Anton Corbijn!

super cool piece about Corbijn, whose extremely strange hitman movie The American is one of my favorites

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

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...