“Fallout” Orion (Winter, 2022)  *Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 notable

“A Mother’s Reflections on Her Child’s Joy and Gender” The New Yorker June 22, 2022

“Back Draft” interview with Rebecca Donner, author of All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days” (Winner of the National Book Critics Circle for Biography) Guernica 2022 

CRISPR and the Future of Gene Editing in Mental Illness Slate  Sept. 21, 2021

“What to Make of Childhood Fears in an Anxious Age” The New Yorker  July 8, 2021

“Guilt, Humor and Nostalgia of the Holidays in Eight Days” The New Yorker Dec 9, 2020

“Charlotte Cushman Broke Barriers on Her Way to Becoming the A-List Actress of the 1800s” Smithsonian Magazine June 30, 2020.

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“How a Pandemic Shaped Shakespeare’s King Lear” Chicago Review of Books July 8, 2020

 “How Shakespeare Paperbacks Made Me Want to Be a Writer” The New York Times Magazine June 2, 2020

“A Mother Turns Her Quarantine Yard Into An Enchanted Garden” The New Yorker May 8, 2020

Every Atom #133 , Walt Whitman Project North American Review Oct 10, 2019

“They Weep at My Doorstep” Tin House  Issue 79, Spring 2019

“A Car-Free New York?” New York Times Opinion April 8, 2019

“You Need to Read Haruki Murakami’s New Stories” Vice, May 2017

“Way of the Gun” Gulf Coast 2017 Finalist, Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize, 2016 selected by David Shields

 “Strangers in the Dark: interview With John Guare” Guernica, 2017

“God’s Body”Apogee, Issue 7

“The Vanity of Crowds: Shakespeare and Democracy” Guernica, Aug 2016

“Shakespeare: Sex, Class, Comedy” Guernica, June 2016

 “The Riddle of Trevor Nunn’s ‘Pericles’” Guernica March 2016

“Shakespeare on the Frontier” Guernica, Feb 2016

 “Hillary Clinton as Lady Macbeth” Guernica, Jan 2016

“Chiasmus” The Rumpus, Aug, 2015

 “Gone Girl, Bluebeard and the Meaning of Marriage” Guernica Oct 2014

 “Making a Hard Choice for a Soft Landing” The New York Times, Modern Love, May 2013

“Reconsideration: Shakespeare’s Coriolanus” The Believer, Sept, 2013

“Man Without Armor: an interview with Alan Sillitoe” Tin House 2013

“Mitt Romney as Shakespeare’s Coriolanus” Guernica, Nov, 2012

“Death Comes as the End: The Murder of Agatha Christie” Narrative, Spring 2012

“Walt Whitman as Editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle” Tin House, Sept 2012

 “Drying in the Wilderness: How Unshakeable Myths About the West Lead to California’s Current Environmental Crisis” The Believer May 2012 Translated into French at Le Believer Audiobook, produced by The Believer and McSweeneys

“Fukushima’s Nuclear Disaster Foretold in 1976” Guernica, Mar, 2012

Street Art and the New Bohemian: interview with Eric Drooker and Molly Crabapple Guernica 2012

What Money Can’t Buy: interview with Michael Sandel Guernica 2012

“The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics” The Rumpus August 2011

“A Modern Marvel: Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams”  Bomb Magazine 2011

“Lebanon by Samuel Maoz” winner Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award Bomb Magazine 2011

“Wrestling With Truth: The Future of Documentary Film” Bomb Magazine  2011

Restrepo: interview with Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger winners of the 2010 Sundance Grand Jury Prize Bomb Magazine 2011

“Charlotte Cushman: A Very Dangerous Young Man,” Lapham’s Quarterly  Feb, 2011

Certified Copy: interview with Juliette Binoche Bomb Magazine  2011

 “The Gentleman Interrogator”  Tin House Issue 41, 2009 Tin House selection for New York Public Library / Council for Literary Magazines and Presses Emerging Writers series “Periodically Speaking” 

“Christian Mungiu’s Tales from the Golden Age” Bomb Magazine 2010

“Editor’s Choice: Treeless Mountain by So Yong Kim” Bomb Magazine Issue 108, 2009

“Lucretia Martel’s The Headless Woman” Bomb Magazine 2009

“Clay Enos’ The Watchmen” Bomb Magazine 2009

No One Knows About Persian Cats: Interview with Bahman Ghobadi Bomb Magazine 2009

Interview with Jem Cohen (audio) Bomb Magazine 2009

Wendy and Lucy: interview with John Raymond Bomb Magazine 2009

Sin Nombre: podcast interview Cary Fukunaga, Best Director, Best Cinematographer: Sundance Film Festival, Bomb Magazine  2009 

“Muse Film Festival: MC Escher’s Infinite Vision” Bomb Magazine 2009

Interview with Robert Persons, director of General Orders No. 9 Bomb Magazine 2009

“Top Honors at the Sundance Film Festival” Bomb Magazine 2009

“Stay the Same, Never Change: Mumblecore Cinema and the Essay Film” Bomb Magazine 2009

“Taiso Yoshitoshi: The Great Resurrection” Tin House,  Issue 29, 2006

“J.M. Barrie: The Man Who Couldn’t Grow Up,” Tin House  Issue 23, 2005

“Alan Sillitoe: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner” Tin House, Issue 21, 2004

“Why Young Voters Supported Dean” New York Times Opinion Feb 24, 2004