Reviews/Criticism/Culture Writing:
"Steven Soderbergh's Motor City Mayham" (review of No Sudden Move, in the Washington Examiner, July 2021).
"Those Who Wish Me Dead is All Smoke, No Fire" (the Washington Examiner, June 2021).
"Small Town Blues" (review of HBO's Mare of Easttown, in the Washington Examiner, May 2021).
"Raoul Peck's Brute-Force Harangue" (review of HBO's Exterminate All the Brutes, in the Washington Examiner, May 2021).
"Daddy Hemingway" (review of Hemingway, a Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary, in the Washington Examiner, April 2021).
Review of Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time by Vivian Gornick, in the Washington Examiner, April 2021.
"Beyond the Grave" (review of Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas by Roberto Bolano, in the Washington Examiner, Feb. 2021).
"In Cold Blood" (review of Snow by John Banville, in the Washington Examiner, Nov. 2020).
"True Grit" (review of Alone: The Arctic, in the Washington Examiner, Sept. 2020).
"Fraternity Blues" (review of Fraternity: Stories by Benjamin Nugent, Washington Examiner, Sept. 2020).
"Codename: Malotru" (review of the television series The Bureau, in the Washington Examiner, Aug. 2020).
"The Joy of Self-Destruction" (review of The Index of Self-Destructive Acts by Christopher Beha, Washington Examiner, June 2020).
"Prep School" (review of Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O'Connell, Washington Examiner, April 2020).
"All the Sad Young Termites" (review of Apartment: A Novel by Teddy Wayne, Washington Examiner, Feb. 2020).
"Valley Girl" (review of Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener, Washington Examiner, Jan. 2020).
"James Wood: Literature's Benevolent Taskmaster" (review of Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019, Washington Examiner, Jan. 2020).
"Joan Didion: New Journalism's Queen of Cool" (review of Joan Didion: The 1960s and 70s, Washington Examiner, Dec. 2019).
Review of Self-Portrait in Black and White by Thomas Chatterton Williams (The Spectator, Oct. 2019).
Review of Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation by Andrew Marantz (The Guardian, Oct. 2019).
"New Film Shows Jay Maisel Leaving His Masterpiece, a 6-Story Bowery Bank" (Bedford + Bowery, Aug. 2019).
Review of Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump by Robby Soave (The Guardian, July 2019).
"Whit Stillman Reveals Some 'Appalling' Dirty Words of Cinema" (Bedford+Bowery, May 2019).
"Duane Michals Targets Trump in New Art Show, But Does He Hit the Mark?" (Bedford + Bowery, June 2017).
"‘Catholic Anarchist’ Dorothy Day Returns to the East Village Via an Art Show" (Bedford + Bowery, June 2017).
"Remembering Shiva Naipaul" (The New Criterion, Feb. 2016).
"Madame Nhu: Vietnam's Lady Macbeth" (Medium, June 2015).
"Sunless Sketches of a Sprawling City" (Maisonneuve, May 2014; illustration by Barry Blitt).
"The Writings of World War One" (The New Criterion, Feb. 2014).
"In Praise of Quixotism" (The New Criterion, July 2013).
"Steven Soderbergh's Motor City Mayham" (review of No Sudden Move, in the Washington Examiner, July 2021).
"Those Who Wish Me Dead is All Smoke, No Fire" (the Washington Examiner, June 2021).
"Small Town Blues" (review of HBO's Mare of Easttown, in the Washington Examiner, May 2021).
"Raoul Peck's Brute-Force Harangue" (review of HBO's Exterminate All the Brutes, in the Washington Examiner, May 2021).
"Daddy Hemingway" (review of Hemingway, a Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary, in the Washington Examiner, April 2021).
Review of Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time by Vivian Gornick, in the Washington Examiner, April 2021.
"Beyond the Grave" (review of Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas by Roberto Bolano, in the Washington Examiner, Feb. 2021).
"In Cold Blood" (review of Snow by John Banville, in the Washington Examiner, Nov. 2020).
"True Grit" (review of Alone: The Arctic, in the Washington Examiner, Sept. 2020).
"Fraternity Blues" (review of Fraternity: Stories by Benjamin Nugent, Washington Examiner, Sept. 2020).
"Codename: Malotru" (review of the television series The Bureau, in the Washington Examiner, Aug. 2020).
"The Joy of Self-Destruction" (review of The Index of Self-Destructive Acts by Christopher Beha, Washington Examiner, June 2020).
"Prep School" (review of Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O'Connell, Washington Examiner, April 2020).
"All the Sad Young Termites" (review of Apartment: A Novel by Teddy Wayne, Washington Examiner, Feb. 2020).
"Valley Girl" (review of Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener, Washington Examiner, Jan. 2020).
"James Wood: Literature's Benevolent Taskmaster" (review of Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019, Washington Examiner, Jan. 2020).
"Joan Didion: New Journalism's Queen of Cool" (review of Joan Didion: The 1960s and 70s, Washington Examiner, Dec. 2019).
Review of Self-Portrait in Black and White by Thomas Chatterton Williams (The Spectator, Oct. 2019).
Review of Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation by Andrew Marantz (The Guardian, Oct. 2019).
"New Film Shows Jay Maisel Leaving His Masterpiece, a 6-Story Bowery Bank" (Bedford + Bowery, Aug. 2019).
Review of Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump by Robby Soave (The Guardian, July 2019).
"Whit Stillman Reveals Some 'Appalling' Dirty Words of Cinema" (Bedford+Bowery, May 2019).
"Duane Michals Targets Trump in New Art Show, But Does He Hit the Mark?" (Bedford + Bowery, June 2017).
"‘Catholic Anarchist’ Dorothy Day Returns to the East Village Via an Art Show" (Bedford + Bowery, June 2017).
"Remembering Shiva Naipaul" (The New Criterion, Feb. 2016).
"Madame Nhu: Vietnam's Lady Macbeth" (Medium, June 2015).
"Sunless Sketches of a Sprawling City" (Maisonneuve, May 2014; illustration by Barry Blitt).
"The Writings of World War One" (The New Criterion, Feb. 2014).
"In Praise of Quixotism" (The New Criterion, July 2013).
