selected articles
2020
Biweekly reviews for the New Republic (ongoing)
We Are Kids Who Remember Only War - New York Times
The Omnivore Paradox - Times Literary Supplement
Bad Bishops, Bloodletting and a Plague of Caterpillars - New York Times
Letter of Recommendation: Old English - New York Times Magazine
Review of Jos Charles's Feeld - The White Review
Moving the Middle (review of “Caravans of Gold”) - Art in America
Alice Coltrane: Journey in Satchidananda - Pitchfork
2018
Watching New York City Take Shape at Windows on the World - New Yorker online
The Grind: Stories From the History of the Lens - Medium
Looking for the Shape of The Last Supper - Cabinet / ADO
2017
The Complicated Political Lives of Medieval Manuscripts - New Yorker online
The Voynich Manuscript and Truth on the Internet - New Yorker online
Fighting Words: On Sarah Schulman’s Conflict is Not Abuse -Bookforum
2016
https://websafe2k16.com/ - an archive of memories of the pre-broadband internet (editor and founder).
Lab Reports, a column about academia for The Awl
The Unseen Diane Arbus - 1843 (The Economist)
An Armorial Age - Art in America December Issue
The Unsolvable Mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript - New Yorker online
The Strange Power of a Medieval Poem about the Death of a Child - New Yorker online
The Remarkable Persistence of the Green Man - New Yorker online
2015
Its So Great Coming Home to Your Message - n+1 online
Speaking in Tongues - The New Republic
2014
Stone Butch Blues isn’t just for Queers - Slate
Shivering in Tolkiens Shadow - Prospect
2013