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R. Jay Magill Jr.
3 books4 followersR. Jay Magill, Jr. is an independent scholar living in Berlin, where he works as a writer, editor, translator, and a host of a radio program on NPR Worldwide. He is the author of Chic Ironic Bitterness, published in 2007, and Sincerity: How A Moral Ideal Born Five Hundred Years Ago Inspired Religious Wars, Modern Art, Hipster Chic, and the Curious Notion that We ALL Have Something to Say (No Matter How Dull), published by W.W. Norton in July 2012.
Magill holds a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Hamburg and served as as staff writer and eventually executive editor of the National Magazine Award- winning DoubleTake Magazine from 1999 to 2005, during which time he was also a teaching fellow at Harvard University. Magill has written for, among other publications, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Policy, American Prospect, Der Spiegel, Boston Globe, and Print. As an illustrator he has drawn political cartoons and caricatures for a variety of periodicals, including The Believer, and since 2005 he has been a staff illustrator at the political bimonthly The American Interest. Since 2008 has been the editor of the Berlin Journal.
Magill holds a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Hamburg and served as as staff writer and eventually executive editor of the National Magazine Award- winning DoubleTake Magazine from 1999 to 2005, during which time he was also a teaching fellow at Harvard University. Magill has written for, among other publications, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Policy, American Prospect, Der Spiegel, Boston Globe, and Print. As an illustrator he has drawn political cartoons and caricatures for a variety of periodicals, including The Believer, and since 2005 he has been a staff illustrator at the political bimonthly The American Interest. Since 2008 has been the editor of the Berlin Journal.
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