Henry Peck

Henry Peck writes about culture, technology, and human rights. His work has appeared in the New York Times, National Public Radio, Almirah, and elsewhere.

In Egypt, the Drying Up of Dissent

By Basma Abdel Aziz, translated from the Arabic by Henry Peck May 7, 2018
Recounting the past of the Eastern Desert is my only refuge given the dire constraints of the present.

Paul Bowles & the Music of Morocco

By December 23, 2016
The writer’s archive of traditional Moroccan music finds a new outlet.

Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami: Mirror from Damascus

By September 22, 2016

In a war that remains unfinished, two Syrian-British writers acknowledge and affirm those whose stories and lives may be lost in its course.

Fred Kaplan: Signal Aspect

By May 26, 2016

Henry Peck interviews Fred Kaplan about the shadowy world of cyber war.

Cynan Jones: Burrow Down

By August 3, 2015

The Welsh novelist on badger baiting, human resonance in the natural world, and why he holds his breath while writing.

Grayson Perry: Social Fabric

By June 15, 2015

Boundaries of Taste: The Turner Prize-winning “transvestite potter” on the taste tribes of Britain.

A Non-Place by the Sea

By and December 23, 2014
When a storm destroyed Dhanushkodi, the government ordered it emptied. Fifty years later, we meet the people who stayed.

Ben Wizner: Pull Back to Reveal

By October 1, 2014

The privacy advocate and legal advisor to Edward Snowden on today’s surveillance empire.