Michael Archer

Jul 22, 2024 | lithub.com | Michael Archer

The online magazine Guernica, which I co-founded twenty years ago, published an essay in March that sparked an uproar among readers, staff and media, both mainstream and social. Article continues belowA day after its publication, I got to read the essay that provoked so much debate and ill feeling, a meditation on empathy during the siege of Gaza, and saw why.

Apr 12, 2024 | guernicamag.com | Michael Archer

Guernica magazine was founded twenty years ago with a mission to confront power with counter narrative. A literary space of dissent that, in the words of George Saunders, “respects the life of the mind with an intensity rarely seen these days,” Guernica is a global community of writers and artists forged through and around the pages of a haven for political writing. Guernica is oriented towards the margins and drawn to the expansive imaginations that emerge from relentless exclusion.

Apr 12, 2024 | everand.com | Michael Archer

Guernica magazine was founded twenty years ago with a mission to confront power with counter narrative. A literary space of dissent that, in the words of George Saunders, “respects the life of the mind with an intensity rarely seen these days,” is a global community of writers

Jun 30, 2023 | usni.org | Michael Archer

On 8 July 1968, U.S. Marine Corps Major General Ray G. Davis met privately with Lieutenant Colonel Archie Van Winkle on isolated Hill 689, about two miles west of the recently abandoned Marine combat base at Khe Sanh. Their conversation beside a small dust-blown landing zone would be brief, largely because the hill was surrounded by hundreds of North Vietnamese Army (NVA) soldiers relentlessly trying to drive the Americans off.