Kurt Andersen ~ journalism

Time articles

New York articles

other articles

I WENT TO WORK for Time in 1981 and wrote about politics, criminal justice, and culture. Around 1985 I became the magazine’s architecture and design critic – and although I left the magazine in 1986 to co-found Spy, I stayed in the architecture-and-design slot as a contributor through 1992. And in 1993 I returned to Time for one year to write a column called “Spectator,” as well as some cover stories.

Not counting my third-grade Thanksgiving essay on God and oxygen and freedom that the Omaha World-Herald printed, my first published, bylined article (not included here) was for the New York Times’ travel section, about a cross-country hitchhiking trip, at age 17. Since then I’ve written more for the Times -- a few Op-Eds, a few book reviews and a bunch of pieces for the Magazine.

And from 1997 though 1999 I wrote regular column for The New Yorker called “The Culture Industry,” as well as some longer pieces.

In addition, I’ve written for Architecture, Architectural Record, The Atlantic Monthly, Metropolis, Rolling Stone, Slate and Vanity Fair. And although it isn’t journalism, I also contributed during the 1980s to parodies of the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and a civil defense booklet.