Reviewers & Critics
NE of the most highly regarded book critics working today, Carlos Lozada won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2019, after being named a finalist for the same prize a year earlier. Prior to that the National Book Critics Circle recognized his work with its annual citation for excellence in reviewing. Of course Lozada’s work stands out not only for the splendor of his accolades, but also for the sharp focus of his criticism: He exclusively reviews nonfiction and primarily books that speak to politics writ large—the “big ideas or themes or debates of the moment,” as he notes below. Lozada previously served as the economics editor as well as the newspaper’s national security editor and the editor of the Sunday opinion section, . Prior to joining the Post in 2005, he was a managing editor of and a Knight-Bagehot fellow in economics and business journalism at Columbia University. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s degree in public administration from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
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