In Conversation with Claudio Lomnitz (New York Review of Books)

The New York Review of Books interviewed Claudio Lomnitz in an Aug. 31, 2024, article, "Gregor Samsa in Mexico."

Lomnitz told interviewer Max Nelson that “Truth—open, public truth—is under attack both by organized crime and by the state itself.”

Lomnitz is the Campbell Family Professor and chair of the Anthropology Department and one or 13 recipients in 2024 of the Center for Political Economy's Faculty Grants. The grant supports a workshop series for The Social Study of Forced Disappearance Laba collaboration between Columbia and Barnard faculty, the Columbia library, and multiple Mexican institutions.