Luke Mogelson is an American journalist. He has contributed to The New Yorker and New York Times Magazine, covering the wars in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq, as well as Minneapolis after the murder of George Floyd and the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

Luke Mogelson
OccupationJournalist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBennington College
GenreWar reporting
Notable awardsGeorge Polk Award
National Magazine Award
Livingston Award

Biography

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Mogelson was born in St. Louis. He graduated from Bennington College in 2005.[1] He was a contributing writer for the New York Times magazine, reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan,[2] from 2011 to 2014. He then moved to The New Yorker in 2013, where he has reported from Ukraine[3] and Syria,[4] and on domestic affairs in the United States.[5]

Achievements and honors

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Mogelson won a Livingston Award in 2013, a National Magazine Award in 2014, and his work has been supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.[6] In 2021, he received a George Polk Award for his coverage of protests and racial politics in the United States.[7]

Works

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Mogelson is the author of The Storm is Here: An American Crucible[8] and These Heroic, Happy Dead, a book of short stories.[9][10]

The Storm is Here

Mogelson's first book, The Storm is Here: An American Crucible, was published September 13, 2022, by Penguin Random House. The book describes the social discord in the United States through a series of eye-witness accounts following the distress created by COVID-19, economic uncertainty, and the clash of political and race relations within the US post-2016.[10][8][11]

Bibliography

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  • Mogelson, Luke (2016). These heroic, happy dead : stories. New York: Tim Duggan Books.
  • — (January 25, 2021). "The storm : in the weeks before the assault on the Capitol, the President and his supporters kept stoking paranoia and rage". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 96 (45): 32–53.[a]
  • — (2022). The storm is here : an American crucible. New York: Penguin Press.

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Notes
  1. ^ Online version is titled "Among the insurrectionists".

References

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  1. ^ "Luke Mogelson | Bennington College". www.bennington.edu. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
  2. ^ "Luke Mogelson". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
  3. ^ Mogelson, Luke (May 22, 2023). "Two Weeks at the Front in Ukraine". The New Yorker. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
  4. ^ Mogelson, Luke (April 22, 2020). "America's Abandonment of Syria". The New Yorker. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
  5. ^ Mogelson, Luke. "Contributor Page". The New Yorker. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  6. ^ "Luke Mogelson '05". Bennington.edu. Bennington College. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  7. ^ "Polk Award Winners". Polk Awards. Long Island University. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  8. ^ a b Borger, Julian (September 7, 2022). "The Storm Is Here by Luke Mogelson review – America on the brink". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
  9. ^ "These Heroic, Happy Dead". MacMillan. MacMillan. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  10. ^ a b Hochschild, Arlie Russell (September 13, 2022). "A New Book Tracks the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the U.S." The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  11. ^ "Luke Mogelson's "The Storm Is Here" Explores the Components That Led to January 6's Capitol Attack". Oprah Daily. September 7, 2022. Retrieved March 1, 2023.