selected articles -

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

2019

Bad Bishops, Bloodletting and a Plague of Caterpillars - New York Times

Bleak House - Bookforum

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

Dr Jos Rx - An Advice Column

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

Sarah Schulman - The Guardian

2015

East of England: Middle English Imperial Romance and the Landscape of British Nationalism - Doctoral dissertation (NYU)

Its So Great Coming Home to Your Message - n+1 online

The Sounds of Rain - The Awl

A Summer Lyric- The Awl

Speaking in Tongues - The New Republic

2014

Stone Butch Blues isn’t just for Queers - Slate

Shivering in Tolkiens Shadow - Prospect

2013

Consider the Werewolf - Prospect

How We Got Pukka - Prospect