Dave Mandl

Dave Mandl’s writing has appeared in a variety of publications. He was the longtime music editor at The Brooklyn Rail and an editor at Semiotext(e)/Autonomedia. He hosts the radio show It’s Complicated at WFMU and plays the bass guitar in various groups.

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Articles

Giant Platforms of Shit
Dave Mandl catches a whiff of Cory Doctorow’s anatomy of platform “enshittification.”
Dave MandlNov 5
- Science & Technology
The “Twaddle” in Finance
In his review of “Poor Charlie's Almanack,” Dave Mandl delights in Charles T. Munger’s skewering of contemporary investing and business practices.
Dave MandlAug 7, 2024
- Economics and Finance
- Science & Technology
North Korea on the Hudson: On Alexander Stille’s “The Sullivanians”
The history of an Upper West Side sex therapy cult isn’t what you think it will be, according to Dave Mandl’s review of Alexander Stille’s “The Sullivanians.”
Dave MandlSep 9, 2023
“I’m Going to Learn How to Make My Own Kind of Life”: On Vashti Bunyan’s “Wayward”
David Mandl reviews Vashti Bunyan’s memoir “Wayward: Just Another Life to Live.”
Dave MandlSep 2, 2022
- Memoir & Essay
- Music
Data Mining for Humanists
Big Data is watching you, and Lev Manovich thinks that’s just fine.
Dave MandlMar 8, 2021
- Science & Technology
Screwing Up Is What We Do
Dave Mandl examines Tom Phillips’s book “Humans,” which details the many ways we’ve screwed up.
Dave MandlJul 22, 2020
- History
- Science & Technology
Dave Brubeck Unsquared: On Philip Clark’s New Biography
Dave Mandl takes five with “Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time” by Philip Clark.
Dave MandlMay 10, 2020
- Biography & Autobiography
- Music
Need You — Baby
Dave Mandl consults “Where to Score,” a collection of classified ads culled from the pages of the “San Francisco Oracle.”
Dave MandlDec 30, 2018
- Cultural Studies
- Gender & Sexuality

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