Greg Barnhisel is a professor of English at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He is the author of Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power (2024), Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy (2015), and James Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound (2005), and the editor of the journal Book History.
Greg Barnhisel
Articles
Did the Buck Stop with Buckley?
William F. Buckley’s patrician trappings didn’t keep him away from the mud, writes Greg Barnhisel in his review of Sam Tanenhaus’s biography of the conservative intellectual.
Clean Energy, Dirt on Our Hands
Greg Barnhisel reviews “Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future” by Vince Beiser.
Kipling in Langley
Was the CIA more a product of the 19th-century Great Game than the 20th-century Cold War? Greg Barnhisel reviews “The CIA: An Imperial History” by Hugh Wilford.
The Pulp of Culture: On Andrew Pettegree’s “The Book at War”
Greg Barnhisel reviews Andrew Pettegree’s “The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading.”
The Hidden War
Greg Barnhisel considers “Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939–1945” by Halik Kochanski.
The Truth Shall Make You Free: Catholicism and the CIA
Greg Barnhisel reviews two new books about the history of the CIA.
Undercover Lovers, or How The CIA Became Style
Greg Barnhisel considers how our stories about the Cold War are evolving from politically urgent realist narratives to a narrative convention itself.
The Second City of Black America
Greg Barnhisel reviews “Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance.”
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