Mark Danner

Mark Danner (born November 10, 1958 in Utica , New York ) is an American writer and journalist . His contributions have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books , among others . Among other things, Danner is critical of US foreign policy, Central America , the former Yugoslavia and the Middle East .

Life

Danner grew up in Utica and studied at Harvard University , where he received a degree in Modern Literature and Aesthetics . After positions at The New York Review of Books , Harper's Magazine and The New York Times Magazine , he joined The New Yorker in 1990 . After 9/11 he wrote about the war on terror and the American invasion of Iraq . Since 2004 he has written a number of critical essays on Abu Ghraib and American torture .

He teaches journalism and English at the University of California, Berkeley .

Works

• The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War . Vintage, New York 1994, ISBN 0-679-75525-X .
• The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels through the 2000 Florida Vote Recount . Melville House, New Jersey 2004, ISBN 978-0-9749609-6-8 .
• Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror . New York Review Books, New York 2004, ISBN 978-0-679-41532-9 .
• The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History . New York Review Books, New York 2006, ISBN 978-1-59017-207-0 .
• Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War . Nation Books, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-56858-413-3 .
• Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War . Simon & Schuster, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1476747767 .

Web links

• Danner's own homepage