Jon Wiener is a professor of history emeritus at UC Irvine. His most recent books are Set the Night on Fire: L. A. in the Sixties, co-authored with Mike Davis, and Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower. He is a contributing editor to and on the board of directors of Los Angeles Review of Books, a contributing editor to The Nation, and host of a weekly afternoon drive-time interview show on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
“Street Cop” and Cartoon Controversies: A Conversation with Art Spiegelman
Jon Wiener speaks with Art Spiegelman on his latest illustrations, lockdown, and not looking for controversy (but finding it anyway)....
We Need a New Federal Writers Project: A Conversation with David Kipen
David Kipen is founder of the nonprofit bilingual storefront lending library Libros Schmibros in Los Angeles’s Boyle Heights. He’s ...
Set the Night on Fire
LARB presents an excerpt from Mike Davis and Jon Wiener"s "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties."...
Remembering Robert Silvers: An Interview from the Archives
In remembrance of Robert Silvers, the Los Angeles Review of Books republishes this 2013 interview with the late NYRB editor....
Hillary’s Biggest Decision
AMONG HILLARY CLINTON’S many historic achievements, one tends to be forgotten: in 2000 she got the highest advance for a ...
Greil Marcus on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize
Is it literature: who cares?...
Trump's Art of the Deal and Roy Cohn: “Always Hit Back”
Roy Cohn’s advice to Donald Trump....
Radio Hour: Charlie Hebdo’s Courage Award and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami
Historian Jon Wiener explains why he supports the protest against The PEN American Center's recognition of Charlie Hebdo with their 2015 award for courage....
Decommissioned Words: An Interview with Richard Ford
Don’t say hydrate when you mean drink....
“Drop the Pen!”: An Interview with Laura Poitras
In January 2013, Edward Snowden reached out to Laura Poitras. He signed his emails “Citizenfour.”...
I Hate Genre: An Interview with John Banville/Benjamin Black
Jon Wiener talks with John Banville about Benjamin Black....
When Nixon asked Haldeman about Philip Roth
Nixon pardoned Lt. Calley for massacring 22 men, women, and children in Vietnam, and came out against abortion the same week. Philip Roth responded....
My Favorite Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theory
Who killed Kennedy? His evil father!...
You Don’t Need a Weatherman
Bill Ayers whitewashes his own history yet again....
Joan Didion, One Week after 9/11
Didion, on the first plane out of New York after 9/11...
Elmore Leonard’s Secret: “Clean Living, and a Fast Outfield”
I MET ELMORE LEONARD, who died on August 20 at age 87, only a couple of times, interviewing him on his ...
Crises of Creativity: Fellini’s "8 1/2"
Revisiting Fellini's '8 1/2' on its 50th anniversary...
50 Years of "NYRB": An Interview with Robert Silvers
IT’S THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY of The New York Review of Books, founded in 1963 and still an essential part of ...
Dirty Wars: An Interview with Jeremy Scahill
JEREMY SCAHILL is national security correspondent for The Nation magazine. He wrote the bestseller Blackwater: Rise of the World’s ...
FDR: Good for the Jews?
WHEN GEORGE BUSH saw pictures of Auschwitz at Yad Vashem, Israel’s museum of the Holocaust, he said — with &...
The Noir Key to the 1940s
DETOUR IS AN ULTRA-LOW-BUDGET 1946 film noir that packs an undeniable punch. “He went searching for love,” the Detour ...
Oliver Sacks: Tripping in Topanga, 1963
Oliver Sacks is the legendary neurologist and New Yorker essayist whose books include the classic The Man Who Mistook His Wife ...
"Just Lucky": An Interview with Gore Vidal
GORE VIDAL WAS A GREAT TALKER as well as a great writer. Dick Cavett called him “the best talker since ...
A Tribute to Eric Hobsbawm: 1917 - 2012
Jon Wiener reflects on the passing of a Marxist scholar and historian....
J. Edgar
Tyrant in a tutu....
The Age of Revolution: Eric Hobsbawm’s “How to Change the World”
For Marx, Hobsbawm emphasizes, capitalism was not just exploitation and oppression. What made capitalism unique was its dynamism....
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