I’m a book critic for NPR, where I used to be the Book News columnist, and I often write about arts and culture for the New York Times and Financial Times. I’ve also written about language, politics, and style for the Guardian, Washington Post, Slate, New York Times Magazine, New Statesman, Atlantic, Times Literary Supplement, Tin House, and other outlets.
You can find me on Twitter here and reach me via email at annalisa.quinn [at] gmail.com.
Here is an interview about getting into book criticism.
Selected work:
New York Times Magazine: Everyone wants to ‘influence’ you
Financial Times: Is “self-care” a salve or a sham?
New York Times Magazine: What makes something a ‘witch hunt’?
New York Times: London’s radio pirates changed music. Then came the internet.
The Atlantic: Sally Rooney’s love under capitalism
NPR: On Bret Easton Ellis’ silly, aggrieved White
New York Times: The Holocaust artist Rosemarie Koczy may have invented her past
Tin House: On food in myth
The Atlantic: Ghost Wall shows the human cost of nativism
NPR: A profile of Philip Pullman
NPR: A review of Michael Wolff’s seamy, satisfying Fire and Fury
NPR: The Water Cure Makes Toxic Masculinity Literal
New York Times: A Musical About Slobodan Milosevic Stirs Memories in Kosovo
New York Times Book Review: On Courtney Maum’s Touch
Slate: The power of food in Roald Dahl
(Almost) everything else can be found here.
