David Rieff

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David Rieff (/ˈriːf/; born September 28, 1952) is an American nonfiction writer and policy analyst. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism.

Biography

Rieff is the only child of Susan Sontag,[1] who was 19 years old when he was born. His father, whom Sontag divorced, was Philip Rieff, author of Freud: The Mind of the Moralist. Rieff was educated at the New Lincoln School,[2] Lycée Français de New York and attended Amherst College as a member of the class of 1974, where he studied under Benjamin DeMott. He completed college at Princeton University, graduating with an A.B. in history in 1978.[3]

Career

Rieff was a senior editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux from 1978 to 1989. Rieff has at various times been a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School for Social Research,[3] a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University,[4] a board member of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch,[5] of the Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute,[6] and of Independent Diplomat.[7]

Rieff has published articles in newspapers and journals including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, El País, The New Republic, World Affairs, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, and The Nation.[8]

Rieff has written about the Bosnian War. Despite his initial support of the tenets of Liberal internationalism, he was critical of American policies and goals in the Iraq War.[9][10] His 2016 article in The Guardian, "The cult of memory: when history does more harm than good"—which argues that some mass atrocities are better forgotten[11]—sparked a debate at the International Center for Transitional Justice.[12]

Reception

Peter Rose, reviewing Rieff's 2008 book Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir, compares it favorably to Simone de Beauvoir's 1964 A Very Easy Death; he considers the latter "perhaps the finest of filial memoirs."[1]

G. John Ikenberry, reviewing Rieff's 2005 book At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention for Foreign Affairs, called him "one of the most engaging observers of war and humanitarian emergencies in such troubled places as Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq". He notes Rieff's "caution and misgivings", and finds especially compelling the essay where Rieff laments the gap between the misery and violence "outside the gates of the Western world" and the obstacles that prevent the West from assembling the strength, whether military or moral, to resolve the problems.[13]

Personal life

Rieff has one child, a daughter, born in 2006.[14]

Books

  • Texas Boots (with Sharon Delano) (Studio/Penguin, 1981)
  • Going to Miami: Tourists, Exiles and Refugees in the New America (Little, Brown, 1987)
  • Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World (Simon & Schuster, 1991)
  • The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami (Simon & Schuster, 1993)
  • Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West (Simon & Schuster, 1995)
  • Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (co-editor, with Roy Gutman) (W. W. Norton, 1999)
  • A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
  • At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention (Simon & Schuster, 2005)
  • Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2008)[1]
  • Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963 (editor) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009)
  • Against Remembrance (Melbourne University Press. 2011)
  • As Consciousness Is Harnessed To Flesh: Journals & Notebooks 1964-1980 (editor) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)
  • The Reproach of Hunger (Simon & Schuster, 2015)
  • In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies (Yale University Press, 2016)
  • On Women (editor) (Picador, 2023)
  • Desire and Fate (Columbia University, 2025)


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  1. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rose, Peter (September 2011). "In the ring with Susan Sontag" (PDF). Australian Book Review. 334: 20–21. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 5, 2016.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rieff Encounter". Observer. May 2, 2005. Retrieved January 13, 2025.
  3. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."David Rieff". World Policy Institute. Archived from the original on November 9, 2017. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."David Rieff". New York Institute for the Humanities. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Arms Project". Human Rights Watch. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Soros Foundations Network 2002 Annual Report" (PDF). Open Society Foundations. 2002. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Independent Diplomat 10 Years" (PDF). Independent Diplomat. February 2015. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."David Rieff, Melbourne University Press". www.mup.com.au. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  9. ^ Rieff, David, Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Muscular Utopianism: I used to be a liberal interventionist. Now I'm a realist". Archived from the original on January 3, 2010. Retrieved June 12, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), The Wall Street Journal, Sunday, April 3, 2005.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Panelists debate the Iraq War (2002)". Youtube. June 6, 2016. Archived from the original on December 12, 2021.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rieff, David (March 2, 2016). "The cult of memory: when history does more harm than good". The Guardian. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Who Decides Whether to Remember or Forget?". International Center for Transitional Justice. Archived from the original on October 28, 2020. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ikenberry, G. John (March 2005). "At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention. David Rieff. : Simon & Schuster, 2005, 288 pp. $24.00". Foreign Affairs. 84 (2, March/April 2005). Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McFadden, Robert D. (July 4, 2006). "Philip Rieff, Sociologist and Author on Freud, Dies at 83". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 31, 2023.

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