Ash Carter

Author Archive

  • Aug 11, 2025
    This week, Knopf published Thomas Chatterton Williams’s Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse, a re-examination of the tumultuous...
  • Jul 21, 2025
    In August 1978, Raymond Carver drove his rattletrap Ford station wagon from Plainfield, Vermont, to the University of Texas at El Paso, where the twice-bankrupt writer had been...
  • May 7, 2025
    On July 29, 1966, Bob Dylan crashed his motorcycle in or around Woodstock, New York. Nobody called the police, so there was no official report of the accident, or even a press...
  • Apr 17, 2025
    On January 23, three days into his second term, Donald Trump mandated the release of all remaining classified files relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Unlike...
  • Feb 28, 2025
    In the summer of 1962, the Swedish writer Jan Myrdal spent a month in Liuling, China, talking to peasant farmers. Their testimonies were published in English by Pantheon, under the...
  • Feb 17, 2025
    In the summer of 1962, the Swedish writer Jan Myrdal spent a month in Liuling, China, talking to peasant farmers. Their testimonies were published in English by Pantheon, under the...