selected writing
The Girls in the Burren (Pioneer Works Broadcast, 2024)
T25 The 25 Photos that Defined the Modern Age (T Magazine, 2024)
Francesca Woodman at Gagosian (Photograph, 2024)
More Real Than a Memory: Melissa Shook (Aperture, 2023)
Janet Malcolm’s “Still Pictures” (Aperture, 2023)
“Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists” at MoMA (Aperture, 2022)
“The New Woman Behind the Camera” at the Met (Aperture, 2021)
Virginia Woolf, Fashion Influencer? (Vanity Fair, 2020)
Of Love and Blindness (The Point, 2019; Pushcart Prize-nominated)
The Photographs I've Never Seen (New York Review of Books, 2018)
Stolen Glasses: a graphic essay (The Paris Review, 2016)
‘Nadja a Paris’ (with Nadja Tesich, New York Review of Books, 2015)
Meeting Joan Didion (The Paris Review, 2012)
interviews
Falling Hard (Broadcast): What to make of this thing we flailingly, failingly call love? These conversations attend to the ways we come together and come apart, as writers explore the questions most fundamental to love’s labors.
with Rachel Aviv: Mother & Daughter
with Maggie Nelson: Compatible Perversities
with Melissa Febos: The Sexiest Thing About Celibacy
with Haley Mlotek: Happily Ever Apart
Book releases:
with Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders (Aperture)
with Zoë Schlanger: The Light Eaters (Lit Hub)
with Emmanuel Iduma': I Am Still With You (Electric Lit)
with Keziah Weir: The Mythmakers (Vogue)
with Sara Ahmed: Feminist Killjoy Handbook (Vanity Fair)
Brief Encounters (selected New York Review of Books newsletters, through 2021):
Ai-jen Poo: domestic and care work
Anna Badkhen: migration & seeing from above
Anakwa Dwamena: closing Rikers & the future of NYC’s jails
Asad Hussein: from Nairobi to NYC
Astra Taylor: remembering David Graeber
Claire Messud: migration, art, & writing fiction
Danny Lyon: photography & changing landscapes
Emily Raboteau: climate change & art
Emmanuel Iduma: reframing colonialism through art
Erin MacLeod & Christopher Alessandrini: dancehall & Louis Fratino
Francesca Mari: gun violence & the housing crisis
Garnette Cadogan: photography, football, & walking
Judith Shulevitz: forgotten feminisms
Lavender Au: quarantine in China and the UK
Maya Millett: black women’s history and the archive
Molly Crabapple: family history; Puerto Rico
Namwali Serpell: art & empathy; “WAP” & the ecstatic Internet
Naomi Klein: the Green New Deal
Nicole Fleetwood & Catherine Bindman: John Edmonds & Sendak
Ruddy Roye: storming the Capitol (and Roye on his photo-essay the “Miners of Black Harlan”)
Sarah Chihaya: Breasts and Eggs, and why we read
Seema Jilani: the blast in Beirut
Shannon Pufahl: Kansas hog farms & counting the dead
Sheila Heti: Clarice Lispector & asking the right questions
Susannah Jacob (with Ruddy Roye): gentrification in the West Village
Tammy Kim: Amazon & labor
Teju Cole: translation & how literature helps carry us
Vivian Gornick: Doris Lessing & cats; the pandemic’s ‘useful solitude’
Willa Glickman: labor & climate in New York City