Kristian Williams

The new issue of Oregon Humanities includes an excerpt from my book Policing the Progressive City.  The section they ran covers the Long Nineties, beginning with the Skinhead Wars, on through two anti-war movements, the anti-globalization movement, police hysteria about anarchist bicyclists, and the militarization of political repression under Chief Mark Kroeker.  You know, the good old days.

I’m pleased to see that the online edition is illustrated with this photograph by Bette Lee, whose work has been invaluable in documenting popular movements in Portland for decades.  (She also provided photos for my earlier collection, Fire the Cops!)

The new Fifth Estate includes my review of Clay Risen’s Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America.  The review is print-only, thus far.  Subscribe today!

At The Comics Journal, I have a review of Andrea Chalupa and Brahm Revel’s Mrs. Orwell, relating it to the growing body of recent scholarship on George Orwell’s first wife, Eileen.

The current issue of the Journal of Working-Class Studies includes an essay of mine about academic writing — why it is so often terrible and how in can be approved.  Naturally I included Orwell’s six rules from “Politics and the English Language.”