Selected Essays and Reviews

Los Angeles Review of Books

November 21st, 2025

Our Reigning Prophet of Doom

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Pittsburgh Review of Books

November 5th, 2025

The EPA’s ’70s Documerica Series is Beautiful and Still Urgent

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The Metropolitan Review

September 15th, 2025

Manic Pixie Dream Bestie: On Stephanie Wambugu’s Lonely Crowds

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The Film Stage

September 2nd, 2025

Pynchon, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Postmodernism on Film

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Los Angeles Review of Books

July 24th, 2025

Do Panic

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The Village Voice

June 24th, 2025

Portnoy’s Undercard: Lucas Schaefer’s ‘The Slip’

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Liberties

May 26th, 2025

The Art of the Meal

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The Village Voice

May 20th, 2025

‘The Seers’ Attempts to Blend Postcolonial Lit With Porn and the Hope for Asylum

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Los Angeles Review of Books

February 25th, 2025

The Painter Novel

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The Village Voice

February 4th, 2025

Since 1967, Frederick Wiseman Has Pointed His Camera at the Institutions that Shape Our Lives

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The Village Voice

January 16th, 2025

E. L. Doctorow’s ‘Ragtime’ at 50: Forget the Musical and Give the Book Another Listen

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The Village Voice

November 19th, 2024

Still Alice: Blake Butler’s Knotty Novel Is Back, Retitled

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Public Domain Review

October 9th, 2024

The Man and the Crowd: Photography, Film, and Fate

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Los Angeles Review of Books