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.”