selected writing
essays & criticism:
More Real Than a Memory: Melissa Shook (Aperture, winter 2023)
Janet Malcolm’s “Still Pictures” (Aperture, April 2023)
Pandemic Journal: on the isolationship (New York Review of Books, March 2020)
Virginia Woolf, Fashion Influencer? (Vanity Fair, February 2020)
Of Love and Blindness (The Point, June 2019; 2020 Pushcart Prize-nominated)
The Photographs I've Never Seen (New York Review of Books, February 2018)
I’ll Take Care of You Tonight (Dissent, October 2016)
Who’s the Boss? (Buzzfeed, June 2015)
‘Nadja a Paris’ (with Nadja Tesich, New York Review of Books, April 2015)
Racecraft: Stories of Racial Passing (LARB, December 2014)
Synchronicity: The Meaning of Coincidence (Guernica, December 2014)
Meeting Joan Didion (The Paris Review, Oct 2012)
on photography:
Deborah Roberts at Stephen Friedman (Photograph, January 2024)
Martine Gutierrez at Ryan Lee (Photograph, July 2023)
Martha Rosler at Mitchell-Innes & Nash (Aperture, January 2023)
“Close Enough: 12 Women Magnum Photographers” at ICP (Aperture, November 2022)
Mysterious Images of the American West (Aperture, June 2022)
“Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists” at MoMA (Aperture, May 2022)
“Greater New York” at MoMA PS1 (Aperture, January 2022)
“The New Woman Behind the Camera” at the Met (Aperture, September 2021)
“But Still, It Turns” at ICP (Aperture, April 2021)
Portraits of American Protest (New York Review of Books, April 2020)
creative:
Vague Shapes (Vocal, 2020)
Stolen Glasses: a graphic essay (The Paris Review, 2016)
reporting:
The True Story of Rastafari (New York Review of Books, January 2017)
Panic in Penn Station (Topic, September 2017)
Police Shooting: A Five-Year Quest for Justice (New York Review of Books, February 2017)
Will There Be Justice for Ramarley Graham? (The Nation, August 2013)
more on photography:
Swagger & Pomp: Jamaica’s Dancehall Style (New York Review of Books, October 2017)
Louis Mendes | Classic Street Photographer (New Yorker.com, December 2016)
The Psychological Portrait (New York Review of Books, July 2016)
Images and the Internet (The Village Voice, June 2016)
Fade Resistance (New Yorker.com, October 2015)
Ruddy Roye | Instagram Activist (Hycide, April 2014)
Shelf Life: The Disappearance of Darkness (The Nation, March 2013)
Radical Chic: New York’s Photo League (The Paris Review, Sept 2012)
interviews
with Emmanuel Iduma about his book I Am Still With You (Electric Lit)
with Keziah Weir about her novel The Mythmakers (Vogue)
with Sara Ahmed about her Feminist Killjoy Handbook (Vanity Fair)
“Brief Encounters” (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