Christopher P. Wilson

Architects, Exiles, and Megalomaniacs: Lawrence Weschler and the Post-Totalitarian Turn

In recent decades, the American journalist Lawrence Weschler—a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and McSweeney’s—established himself as one of the most prolific and imaginative writers on the “post-totalitarian” turn: that is, on the startling revival or persistence of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes around...