Vincent Bevins

Vincent Bevins is an American journalist and author who served as Brazil correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and covered Southeast Asia for the Washington Post. He is best known for his books The Jakarta Method (2020) and If We Burn (2023), and has contributed to publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and the London Review of Books. He also writes the newsletter North South Notes, where he published the essay on the 'vibe shift' as a leveraged buyout.