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Shaun Randol

Shaun Randol is the founder and editor of The Mantle. He is also an Associate Fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York City, and a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the PEN American Center. His personal website is shaunrandol.com and you can follow him on Twitter @shaunrandol.


Articles

  • The Great Emancipators
    Monday, March 11, 2013

    In this essay, Shaun Randol wonders if, after forty years, John Berger's Marxist take on European oil painting and modern advertising is still relevant, and whether the feminist social critic...

  • Who is Watching Whom?
    Tuesday, February 14, 2012

    During the three month occupation of Zuccotti Park by Occupy Wall Street protesters last year, cameras were everywhere. News agencies, police, and demonstrators trained their cameras (high end and...

  • The Game Changer
    Wednesday, August 31, 2011

    Though media and public interest in the organization has waned recently, WikiLeaks continues to publish a torrent of diplomatic and other sensitive material. In this essay, Shaun Randol argues...

  • Iraq's Starving Artists
    Monday, April 4, 2011

    Syria is home to some 1.5 million Iraqi refugees who have fled the violence of their home country. Artists are amongst those living in substandard conditions, but such settings do not deter them...

  • The Next Fifty: Technology in Africa - Event
    Thursday, January 13, 2011

    On December 3, 2010, Shaun Randol moderated a discussion on development technology in Africa. Three distinguished panelists discussed the role technology plays in raising...

  • The Greatest Silence - Event
    Monday, November 8, 2010

    Video and pictures from our event on October 22, 2010. The Mantle and Project Africa screened the film, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo, followed...

  • Stranger than Fiction
    Monday, October 18, 2010

    In 1971, Xiaoda Xiao was arrested in China and labeled a "counterrevolutionary." He spent five years in prison, and then two more in a labor camp. The Cave Man is a novel...

  • The Passionate Gardener
    Monday, July 19, 2010

    Alberto Ruy-Sánchez's The Secret Gardens of Mogador explores the depths of sensuality found in the nurture of nature. In a modern take on the role of Scheherazade, the narrator of...

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