Richard
Byrne
Writings
My writings on news, culture, theatre, literature and history have appeared in a number of publications. Some of the most recent - and the best - of them are collected on this page.
Recent Work
* How did Hong Kong become a virtual lab for protest in a surveillance state? (The Wilson Quarterly)
* Ivan Sviták and the power of truth in a post-truth age. (The New Republic)
* An interview with the host of All In with Chris Hayes about the long COVID winter of 2020-2021. (The Wilson Quarterly).
* The Velvet Revolution and an American grad student inspired Bohumil Hrabal to write one of his greatest works. (The Wilson Quarterly)
* Dachau 1919 and Dachau 1933 (Balkans via Bohemia)
Selected Essays and Interviews
Harold Pinter (The Nation)
Luddism and Luddites (The Baffler)
Dusan Makavejev (The Nation)
The Wrong Witch: Dubravka Ugresic (The Common Review)
Interview with Dubravka Ugresic (The Common Review)
Renaissance Journalism (The Nation)
Labor and Theatre (The American Prospect)
Jiří Kolář and Bohumil Hrabal (Balkans via Bohemia)
Milan Kundera (The American Prospect)
Doug Lucie (DC Theatre Scene)
Weaponized Interdependence (The Wilson Quarterly)