David Masciotra is the author of Mellencamp: American Troubadour (University Press of Kentucky, 2015) and I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters (Bloomsbury, 2020). He has also written for Salon, The Progressive, and CounterPunch.
David Masciotra
Articles
Sinclair Lewis’s Nightmare: On “This Happened Here” and “Rising Fascism in America”
Two books take Trump’s authoritarian impulses with a sense of alarm.
Dismantle All of This Stuff: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky discusses his latest co-authored book, “Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance.”
Stanley Crouch, Radical Pragmatist
The death of Stanley Crouch leaves America’s intellectual culture less interesting, less imaginative, and, above all else, less artful.
Patti Smith and Male Bias in Music Criticism
David Masciotra makes the case for a major critical reappraisal of Patti Smith.
Darkness on the Edge of America
Trump’s true aesthetic is not reality TV but the sad and lonely paintings of Edward Hopper.
Into the Noir Mystic: A Conversation about Injustice, Evil, and Redemption with James Lee Burke
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