David Bennun

Bennun started his career in music journalism in the 1990s. Notable publications he has written for include Melody Maker, The Guardian and The Quietus.{{cite web |url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Writer/david-bennun |title=David Bennun |website=Rock's Backpages |access-date=22 December 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://thequietus.com/users/9353 |title=David Bennun |website=The Quietus |access-date=22 December 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/davidbennun |title=David Bennun |website=The Guardian |access-date=22 December 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://www.1843magazine.com/contributor/664 |title=David Bennun |website=1843 |publisher=Economist Group |access-date=22 December 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/103/1037645/david-bennun.html |title=David Bennun |website=Penguin Books |access-date=22 December 2018}} He is noted for his interview pieces, which have been cited in several books.{{cite book |title=Chris Rock |first=Jeanne |last=Nagle |series=The Giants of Comedy |publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group |year=2015 |isbn=978-1499462630 |page=45}}{{cite book |title=Chris Rock: A Biography of a Comic Genius |first=Marty |last=Gitlin |series=African-American Icons |publisher=Enslow Publishing |year=2014 |isbn=978-1464612206 |page=92}}{{cite book |title=O corpo incerto |trans-title=The Uncertain Body |first=Francisco |last=Ortega |publisher=Editora Garamond |year=2008 |isbn=978-8576171409 |page=232 |lang=pt}}

In 2018, he began to write about political subjects such as Brexit and anti-Semitism for The Guardian{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/30/brexit-britain-crisis-uk |title=Brace yourself, Britain. Brexit is about to teach you what a crisis actually is |first=David |last=Bennun |date=30 November 2018 |work=The Guardian |access-date=22 December 2018}}{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-yellow-vests-and-why-there-are-so-many-street-protests-in-france |title=The Yellow Vests and Why There Are So Many Street Protests in France |first=Adam |last=Gopnik |date=6 December 2018 |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=22 December 2018 |quote=We live in a time, as David Bennun wrote ... when what Americans call liberal institutions ... have been in place for so long that people assume ... that they can be perpetuated even as the protections they offer come under assault by authoritarian extremists}} and New Statesman.{{cite news |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/religion/2018/07/contemporary-anti-semitism-101-basic-possible-ten-point-explainer |title=Contemporary anti-Semitism 101: a basic (as possible) ten-point explainer |first=David |last=Bennun |date=26 July 2018 |work=New Statesman |access-date=22 December 2018}}

• {{cite book |title=Tick Bite Fever |first=David |last=Bennun |publisher=Ebury Press |year=2004 |isbn=9780091897437 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/tickbitefever00benn }}{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jun/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview25 |title=Non-fiction: June 28 |work=The Guardian |first1=Steven |last1=Poole |first2=Vera |last2=Rule |date=28 June 2003}}
• {{cite book |title=British As A Second Language |first=David |last=Bennun |publisher=Ebury Press |year=2010 |isbn=9781409004677}}

• Chris Rock {{mdash}} {{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/dec/26/1 |title=Ready to Rock |first=David |last=Bennun |work=The Observer |date=26 December 1999}}
• Robert J. White {{mdash}} {{cite web |url=https://www.bennun.biz/interviews/drwhite.html |title=Dr Robert White |first=David |last=Bennun |work=The Sunday Telegraph Magazine |year=2000 |via=Bennun's official website}}

{{reflist}}

• {{official website}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bennun, David}}

Category:1968 births

Category:British music critics

Category:English writers

Category:Living people

{{UK-journalist-stub}}