Andrew Koenig

Writer, Proofreader & Copyeditor

United States

Andrew Koenig is a culture writer, editor and proofreader living in Los Angeles. He holds a BA from Yale and is currently a PhD candidate in English at Harvard. Get in touch with him at [email protected].

Portfolio
Los Angeles Review of Books
03/17/2021
What's a Novel Good For?

"EVERYBODY BEHAVES BADLY," says Hemingway's Jake Barnes. "Give them the proper chance." Why read novels about people behaving badly? Can a novel about bad people do readers good?

Harvard Review
The Pulitzer Prize Winner We Didn't Know We Needed

In May, the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction was awarded to Joshua Cohen for his comic novel, The Netanyahus, "a mordant, linguistically deft historical novel about the ambiguities of the Jewish-American experience." It's worth asking: why this novel now?

New Haven Independent
10/02/2017
The Skinny On Civvies

Civvies is not unlike the block it sits on between Orange and Church, where storefronts can turn over frequently.

New Haven Independent
09/25/2017
"Exile" On Chapel Street

"Artists in Exile," at the Yale University Art Gallery until the end of the year, is as ambitious as it sounds. In the gallery's own words, it "spans 200 years of art history."

New Haven Independent
09/13/2017
'Scumbags" Takes Urbanwear Local

It all started with the name. The way Danny Baker told it, his New Haven-based urbanwear brand, Local Scumbags, has its origins in a toast.

National Review
09/09/2017
Eichmann Revisited

Operation Finale at the Museum of Jewish Heritage portrays Eichmann’s kidnapping and trial as a smooth and speedy affair, but in doing so lapses into tendentious interpretation.

New Haven Independent
05/03/2017
Karaoke "Heroes" Emerge On Crown

What's the craziest thing that's ever happened at Karaoke Heroes? "I would never have another customer if I repeated it."

The New Criterion
04/07/2017
"Everybody" has a say

On "Everybody," written and directed by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, performed by Signature Theatre.

Toledo Blade
06/30/2015
Region roils over floods

The Portage River raged in the distance, but Lynn Bunn of Woodville held out hope on Monday that the town's Fourth of July festival wouldn't be completely flooded out.

Toledo Blade
07/06/2015
Accidents, delays soar in I-75 work zone

Congestion and crashes have plagued the 32-mile stretch of I-75 extending from Perrysburg to Findlay, where construction began in June, 2014.

The New Criterion
08/21/2014
Briefly Noted: Toulouse-Lautrec at MoMA

As reported in an old MoMA catalogue, contemporaries describe Toulouse-Lautrec’s work as “exquisitely perverse” and “superbly nauseating.” “Prints and Posters” shows that he is sometimes simply “exquisite” and “superb.”

The New Criterion
08/14/2014
A Most Strange Performance

The staging of Shakespeare in the Park’s King Lear matches the strangeness of the play itself.

The New Criterion
04/04/2014
Stravinsky's Average Joe

That The Soldier’s Tale is coming to Carnegie Hall this Sunday is no surprise. The music Stravinsky composed is as remarkably fresh and startling as it was in 1918.