Joel Whitney

Joel Whitney is the author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World's Best Writers , which The New Republic called a "powerful warning." His writing has appeared in The New York Times , The Daily Beast , The Baffler , The Wall Street Journal , Boston Review , New York Magazine , and elsewhere. He is a former features editor at Al Jazeera America and a founder and former editor-in-chief of Guernica , for which he was awarded the 2017 PEN/Nora Magid Award for Excellence in Editing. His essays in...See more

Joel Whitney is the author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World's Best Writers , which The New Republic called a "powerful warning." His writing has appeared in The New York Times , The Daily Beast , The Baffler , The Wall Street Journal , Boston Review , New York Magazine , and elsewhere. He is a former features editor at Al Jazeera America and a founder and former editor-in-chief of Guernica , for which he was awarded the 2017 PEN/Nora Magid Award for Excellence in Editing. His essays in The Baffler, Dissent and Salon were Notables in Best American Essays 2017, 2015 and 2013. See less