The Workplace Nightmares of Severance. The Nation. March 2025. 

The Pitt and the Gritty Return of the Hospital Drama. The Nation. February 2025.

On the Other Side of the Screen (After The Leftovers). Post45. December 2024. 

The Empty Thrills of Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer. The Nation. December 2024. 

The Ornery Intrigues of Slow Horses. The Nation. September 2024.

"Coded Messages: The many worlds of HBO's The Sympathizer." The Nation, May 2024.

"Desert Planets" (What's Missing in Dune: Part Two?), The Nation, March 2024.

The Unanswered Questions of True Detective. The Nation. February 2024. 

"The Dark Message of Killers of the Flower Moon," The Nation, October 2023. 

"The Psychic Theater of Boots Riley," The Nation, July 2023. 

"The Many Enigmas of Oppenheimer," The Nation, July 2023

"Is 'Asteroid City' Wes Anderson’s Greatest Film?" The Nation, July 2023.

Brandon Taylor by Jorge Cotte. BOMB Magazine, June 2023

"Is There Anything Below the Surface in 'Beau Is Afraid'?" The Nation, May 2023. 

"The Banal Politics of 'Extrapolations'," The Nation, April 2023.

“Yacht, Rocks: On HBO’s The White Lotus and Picturesque Dread,” Los Angeles Review of Books, February 2023.

“Paul Schrader’s Wild Facebook Posts Remind Me of Roland Barthes’s 'The Death of the Author',” Complex, February 2023.

“Surviving Destruction: What Keeps Going in Eugenie Brinkema’s Life-Destroying Diagrams,” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 2022.

“Nonlinear Delivery Options: The Times of Station Eleven,” Los Angeles Review of Books, January 2022.

“The Appearance of Light: On Barry Jenkins’s The Underground Railroad,” Los Angeles Review of Books, no. 31, 2021, pp. 110-117.

“Towards a Theory of the Poogian,” Podcast Review, May 2021. 

“Speculative Fictions: Finance, Excess, and HBO's Industry,” Los Angeles Review of Books, February 2021. 

“Into the Wilderness of the Jeffrey MacDonald Murder Case,” InsideHook, October 2020. 

“The Collectors: Chef Paul Kahan Is a Connoisseur of Teak-Wood Pepper Mills,” InsideHook, August 2020. 

“Reimagining Networks: An interview with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun,” Frenemies, Vol. 74, The New Inquiry, April 2020.

“Every Boom Has Its Busts: On Texas Monthly’s ‘Boomtown’,” Podcast Review, February 2020. 

“Tick Tock: The Timeliness of Watchmen,” Los Angeles Review of Books, November 2019.

“Motion Sickness: Disavowing Succession,” Los Angeles Review of Books, October 2019. 

“Yalitza Aparicio’s Success After Roma Exposes Mexico’s Ugly Truth of Anti-Indigenous Bigotry,” Remezcla, February 2019. 

“Are Roma’s Oscar Nominations a Win for Diversity or a Different Shade of Whiteness in Hollywood?” Remezcla, February 2019.

“Radical Acts of Flyness,” Los Angeles Review of Books, November 2018. 

“Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Brockhampton (But Were Afraid to Ask),” Complex, March 2018. 

“American Woman,” The New Inquiry, September 2017. 

“George Lopez and the Slippery Slope of Social Satire,” Remezcla, February 2017.