Selected Articles by Walsh
Picturing Conflict: An Interview with Michael Christopher Brown
Hyperallergic, 09/2016
In 2011, photographer Michael Christopher Brown took a “road trip” through the Libyan Revolution. His new book, Libyan Sugar, chronicles that extraordinary journey. This is a photo book of war, and a painfully graphic one at that. But it isn’t just a book of images; it also offers up journal entries by the photographer, as well as emails that he exchanged with friends, family and colleagues.
The Omni American Author: An Albert Murray Collection
Hyperallergic, 01/2017
Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs opens with a seminal piece, The Omni-Americans. In 1970, Murray took on black protest writers and defied establishment thinking with his claims of “a folklore of white supremacy and a fakelore of black pathology.”
The Lost Rolls and the Unreliable Shadow of Memory
The New Republic, 03/2016
What does it mean to “read” a photograph? To see an image is to perceive it optically, to read an image is something more….
Gender, Art, Perception: Lauren Walsh Interviews Siri Hustvedt
Los Angeles Review of Books, 03/2014
Recently, Hustvedt and I met up in her home, a landmarked brownstone in the heart of Park Slope. In an airy, sundrenched room — an open space with fresh flowers, inviting chairs, and artwork adorning the walls and tabletops — Hustvedt curled into her seat, mug of coffee in hand, and we talked about the new book, and about writing, literature, and culture.
In Memory of Albert Murray
Los Angeles Review of Books, 08/2013
“Yet for all the weight of the big questions Murray posed — ‘What is human nature?’ ‘How does art allow people to transcend?’ — conversations with him never bogged down. He mingled gravitas with humor and wit. You can’t persevere without some levity, he’d point out.”