Radio Clásica in San Salvador interviewed me about my book on revolutionary poets and politics at La Pájara Pinta, a legendary magazine in El Salvador in the late 1960s and early ’70s where radically experimental poets found that breaking with literary conventions soon implied breaking with the country’s conservative political and economic order as well. Read More

My editor at the TLS claims he didn’t plan it this way, but the day after the last arms-control treaty between the United States and Russia expired, the Times Literary Supplement of London published my review of three excellent, very different books about apocalypse. Read More

I’ll be speaking at Yale University on Wednesday, January 21st, 2026, on covering science and archaeology as a journalist, 4 pm. Read More

I think I would have liked Dom Phillips. Read More

El País, the Madrid-based newspaper, which I’ve read and admired for many years, picked up an article I wrote in the course of my consulting work at the World Bank Group. Read More

I’ll be speaking at Georgetown University on my new book, Nuestra palabra es fuego (Our Word is Fire), on Tuesday, November 12, 4 pm, invited by Georgetown’s Americas Forum and the History and Spanish departments. Read More

Editorial Universitaria, the book publishing unit of the national University of El Salvador, published my latest book, Nuestra palabra es fuego: La Pájara Pinta y los poetas de la revolución en El Salvador, 1965-1975, in San Salvador in July 2024. Read More

I was interviewed by Jason Pentrail on looting, archaeology, and reporting for his terrific podcast Seven Ages. Read More

The issues are complicated, of course, and I don’t know all the details of this case, but I think this is an example of what responsible exhibits by museums accused of buying loot would look like. Read More

Tianna Mobley interviewed me last week for an episode of her sparking podcast series on lost histories of the Atlantic world. Read More