selected writing
essays & criticism & short stories:
The Girls in the Burren (Pioneer Works Broadcast, May 2024)
More Real Than a Memory: Melissa Shook (Aperture, winter 2023)
Janet Malcolm’s “Still Pictures” (Aperture, April 2023)
Virginia Woolf, Fashion Influencer? (Vanity Fair, February 2020)
Of Love and Blindness (The Point, June 2019; Pushcart Prize-nominated)
The Photographs I've Never Seen (New York Review of Books, February 2018)
Stolen Glasses: a graphic essay (The Paris Review, 2016)
‘Nadja a Paris’ (with Nadja Tesich, New York Review of Books, April 2015)
Meeting Joan Didion (The Paris Review, Oct 2012)
on photography:
T25 The 25 Photos that Defined the Modern Age (T Magazine, June 2024)
Avion Pearce’s “In the Hours Between Dawn" (Aperture, May 2024)
Francesca Woodman at Gagosian (Photograph, May 2024)
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)
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)
Shelf Life: The Disappearance of Darkness (The Nation, March 2013)
Radical Chic: New York’s Photo League (The Paris Review, Sept 2012)
interviews
Miscellaneous
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