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Tim Barker

is a writer living in New York. His work has also appeared in Jacobin, The Nation, and Bookforum.

Essays & Reviews

Some of This Actually Happened

By Tim BarkerFebruary 4, 2014
American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street, in and out of history
Essays & Reviews

Rank and File Countrypolitan

By Tim BarkerOctober 3, 2012
When country musicians tried to protect the integrity of their genre in the 1970s against the likes of John Denver, it wasn’t merely aesthetic protest but an organized labor movement
Essays & Reviews

Unfree Labor

By Tim BarkerMay 6, 2011
A review of Ross Perlin’s Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy Taped up in my dorm room there…
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Letters of Recommendation: C. Wright Mills to Fidel Castro

By Tim BarkerMay 1, 2011
For there is no nonsense in this man about Communism or anti-Communism. He is an honest observer and straight thinker.
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