Joel Whitney

Joel Whitney is the author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Republic, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter @joel_whitney.

Our Man in Hollywood

Joel Whitney

June 15, 2022

With help from the CIA, Joseph Mankiewicz took a stand against “anti-Americanism.”

Propaganda, Anti-propaganda

Joel Whitney

December 6, 2019

On The Report and the history of the CIA onscreen

Fifty Years of Disquietude

Joel Whitney

December 5, 2016

Issue no. 33

The road from the capital to Acapulco was riddled with deadly switchbacks. Navigating the sharp turns left him just enough residual focus to daydream about his novel. Gabriel García Márquez was driving his family to its first vacation after long stretches of poverty. Ad work ...