Writing
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"Coded Messages: The many worlds of HBO's The Sympathizer." The Nation, May 2024.
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"Desert Planets" (What's Missing in Dune: Part Two?), The Nation, March 2024.
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"The Dark Message of Killers of the Flower Moon," The Nation, October 2023.
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"The Psychic Theater of Boots Riley," The Nation, July 2023.
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"The Many Enigmas of Oppenheimer," The Nation, July 2023
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"Is 'Asteroid City' Wes Anderson’s Greatest Film?" The Nation, July 2023.
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Brandon Taylor by Jorge Cotte. BOMB Magazine, June 2023
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"Is There Anything Below the Surface in 'Beau Is Afraid'?" The Nation, May 2023.
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"The Banal Politics of 'Extrapolations'," The Nation, April 2023.
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“Yacht, Rocks: On HBO’s The White Lotus and Picturesque Dread,” Los Angeles Review of Books, February 2023.
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“Paul Schrader’s Wild Facebook Posts Remind Me of Roland Barthes’s 'The Death of the Author',” Complex, February 2023.
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“Surviving Destruction: What Keeps Going in Eugenie Brinkema’s Life-Destroying Diagrams,” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 2022.
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“Nonlinear Delivery Options: The Times of Station Eleven,” Los Angeles Review of Books, January 2022.
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“The Appearance of Light: On Barry Jenkins’s The Underground Railroad,” Los Angeles Review of Books, no. 31, 2021, pp. 110-117.
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“Towards a Theory of the Poogian,” Podcast Review, May 2021.
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“Speculative Fictions: Finance, Excess, and HBO's Industry,” Los Angeles Review of Books, February 2021.
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“Into the Wilderness of the Jeffrey MacDonald Murder Case,” InsideHook, October 2020.
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“The Collectors: Chef Paul Kahan Is a Connoisseur of Teak-Wood Pepper Mills,” InsideHook, August 2020.
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“Reimagining Networks: An interview with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun,” Frenemies, Vol. 74, The New Inquiry, April 2020.
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“Every Boom Has Its Busts: On Texas Monthly’s ‘Boomtown’,” Podcast Review, February 2020.
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“Tick Tock: The Timeliness of Watchmen,” Los Angeles Review of Books, November 2019.
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“Motion Sickness: Disavowing Succession,” Los Angeles Review of Books, October 2019.
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“Yalitza Aparicio’s Success After Roma Exposes Mexico’s Ugly Truth of Anti-Indigenous Bigotry,” Remezcla, February 2019.
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“Are Roma’s Oscar Nominations a Win for Diversity or a Different Shade of Whiteness in Hollywood?” Remezcla, February 2019.
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“Radical Acts of Flyness,” Los Angeles Review of Books, November 2018.
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“Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Brockhampton (But Were Afraid to Ask),” Complex, March 2018.
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“American Woman,” The New Inquiry, September 2017.
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“George Lopez and the Slippery Slope of Social Satire,” Remezcla, February 2017.