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Earlier, 2023, Semiotex(e)
Miles Davis, Ascenseur pour l’echafaud, Metrograph, April 10 2024
Heather Lewis, Notice, 4Columns, March 22 2023
Sonic Youth’s Walls Have Ears, 4Columns, February 9 2024
Lou Reed, The Nation, January 23 2o24
Time Is Away + Searchlight Moonbeam, The Paris Review, January 5 2024
Louis Armstrong House Museum, New York Review of Architecture, December 2023
André 3000’s New Blue Sun, 4Columns, December 1 2023
Dylan Thomas’s short stories, 4Columns, November 3 2023
Ryuichi Sakamoto, The New Yorker, October 21 2023
Teju Cole’s Tremor, 4Columns, October 20 2023
Julius Eastman + Anaïs Ngbanzo, Metrograph, October 10 2023
Alexandra Zsigmond, Bal Harbour, Oct 2023
Harry Smith at The Whitney, Artforum, October 2023
“The Softness,” Inque Issue Two, fall 2023
Benjamín Labatut, 4Columns, September 22 2023
Harry Smith (the John Szwed bio), Bookforum, summer 2023
The Oldster questionnaire, July 26 2023
Henry Threadgill, 4Columns, June 9 2023
La Monte Young’s Dream House, Frieze, May 26 2023
Pierre Bonnard, 4Columns, May 19 2023
Kevin Beasley, 4Columns, April 7 2023
Gordon Matta-Clark and Pope.L, 4Columns, March 17 2023
Gorillaz, 4Columns, February 24 2023
Nan Goldin and All The Beauty and the Bloodshed, NYRA, Jan 2023
Janet Malcolm, 4Columns, January 13 2023
Księżyc, Broadcast, January 5 2023
Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song, 4Columns, December 2 2022
Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook, Bookforum, Dec/Jan/Feb 2023
Corner Club Cathedral Cocoon: Audiophilia and its discontents, Harper’s Magazine, December 2022
Tominaga Nakamoto and Paul Chan, 4Columns, Novmber 11 2022
A guide to the music of Can, Shfl, October 7 2022
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s King Pleasure exhibit, Observer, October 6 2022
Michael Rother & NEU!, Artforum, October 2022
Ling Ma’s Bliss Montage, 4Columns, September 16 2022
FMP, AACM, The Cricket, Bookforum, Sept/Oct/Nov 2022
Built To Spill, 4Columns, September 2 2022
A guide to kosmische krautrock, Shfl, July 2022
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Observer, June 24 2022
Michael + Christian Blackwood, Broadcast, June 14 2022
Eiko Ishibashi, Artforum, June 6 2022
A guide to IDM, Shfl, June 2022
Elizabeth Hardwick, 4Columns, June 3 2022
Gary Indiana, Bookforum, June/July/August 2022
Kristjana Gunnars, 4Columns, May 20 2022
Éliane Radigue, Artforum, May 2022
A guide to post-punk, Shfl, April 2022
Conversation with Sarah Leonard about Surrealism, AJ+, April 28 2022
Cookie Mueller, 4Columns, April 22 2022
The Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions podcast, April 20 2022
Warren Ellis, Bookforum, March 31 2022
Bronco Bullfrog, Observer, March 25 2022
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing, Observer, March 21 2022
Rosalía, Observer, March 19 2022
Arthur Russell, Observer, March 14 2022
caroline, 4Columns, March 4 2022
Lucy Sante, Bookforum, Mar/Apr/May 2022
Odetta, New Yorker, February 24 2022
Surrealism Beyond Borders, New Left Review, February 23 2022
J Dilla and Dilla Time, 4Columns, February 18 2022
Kanye West, jeen-yuhs, Observer, February 16 2022
Etel Adnan, 4Columns, January 14 2022
Ronnie Spector, Observer, January 13, 2022
The Weeknd, Dawn FM, Observer, January 7, 2022
Greg Tate, Bookforum, December 14, 2021
Greg Tate, Village Voice, December 13 2021
Neil Young + Crazy Horse’s Barn, Observer, December 10 2021
Arca’s KiCk series, 4Columns, December 10 2021
Cured Quail, Bookforum, December 8 2021
Richard Zenith’s Pessoa, Bookforum, Dec/Jan/Feb 2022
The Beatles and Peter Jackson’s Get Back, Observer, November 26 2021
Ronnie Wilson & The Gap Band, Observer, November 12 2021
The Pop Group, Y In Dub, 4Columns, November 5 2021
Todd Haynes’s The Velvet Underground, Frieze, October 18 2021
King Crimson, Artforum, October 1 2021
Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads, 4Columns, October 1 2021
Mark E. Smith, Bookforum, Sept/Oct/Nov 2021
Ghédalia Tazartès, New Left Review, July 14 2021
Snacky Tunes, Digest, July 2021
Michael Robbins, Walkman, Poetry Foundation, June 21 2021
Nathaniel Mackey, Double Trio, Bookforum, June/July/August 2021
CAN, Live in Stuttgart 1975, 4Columns, May 21 2021
Adam Curtis, NYRB, May 8 2021
Phillip Lopate, The Golden Age of the American Essay, 4Columns, April 9 2021
Kasuo Ishiguro, Town & Country, April 2021
Lana Del Rey, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, 4Columns, March 26 2021
Daft Punk, New Left Review, March 3 2021 (and here is the Spanish version, in El Salto)
Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This, 4Columns, February 12 2021
Music under Trump, The Drift, February 3 2021
Sleaford Mods + Spare Ribs, 4Columns, January 29 2021
Gez Varley, Bayou Paradis, The Drift, January 10 2021
The New Yorker, 2004-2023
Michel Leiris, New Yorker, December 9 2020
The Marsalis brothers, Town & Country, November 20 2020
Robert Ashley + Laurie Anderson, Affidavit, December 1 2020
Emily J. Lordi, Bookforum, November 24, 2o20
Borgen, The Drift, November 16, 2020
“American History XYZ,” Bookforum, Dec/Jan/Feb 2021
“Wild Streamlet Of The West!: How COVID strengthened digital bonds in the film community,” Cultured Magazine, October 28, 2020
Jóhann Jóhannsson, “End of Summer,” MUBI, October 12 2020
Bill Callahan + Gold Record, 4Columns, September 11 2020
Peter L’Official’s Urban Legends, Bookforum, Sept/Oct/Nov 2020
Interview for Book/Shop, July 12 2020
Interview with Wayne Koestenbaum, Bookforum, June 2 2020
Denis Johnson, Already Dead, Bookforum, Summer 2020
Robert Ashley, Automatic Writing, 4Columns, April 17 2020
Mike Davis + Jon Wiener’s “Set The Night on Fire,” Bookforum, April/May 2020
Rob Doyle’s Threshold, Bookforum, March 17 2020
Andy Gill + Gang of Four, New Yorker, February 16 2020
The legacies of Warp and ECM, Artforum, January 17 2020
Unsound 2019, Artforum, December 15 2019
Pop music criticism syllabus, Bookforum, December 6 2019
Ariana Reines, Bookforum, December 3 2019
Ian Penman, It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track, Bookforum, December 2019/January 2020
Patty Waters, Artforum, September 23 2019
Jess Row’s White Flights, Bookforum, September/October/November 2019
Robert Caro’s Working, Bookforum, Summer 2019
Sunn O))), Artforum, May 6 2019
Aphex Twin, Artforum, April 19 2019
Stephen O’Malley, Artforum, April 12 2019
Marlon Mullen, Artforum, April 1 2019
Altamont + Meredith Hunter, The New Yorker, March 28 2019
Joshua Sperling’s A Writer of Our Time, Bookforum, April/May 2019
John Zorn, Artforum, February 1 2019
Mark Fisher’s k-punk, Bookforum, February/March 2019
Angela Heisch + Alessandro Keegan, Artforum, January 28 2019
Electric Garden Studios, Billboard, January 28 2019
Éliane Radigue, Artforum, January 1 2019
Pete Shelley, Billboard, December 14 2018
Seeing/Writing, the fall 2018 seminar at The Artist’s Institute
The Fork, composed stories in sound, 2018—
Richard Bernstein’s Fame, Artforum, December 1, 2018.
Meredith Monk’s Cellular Songs, Artforum, November 7 2018
Catherine Opie’s The Modernist, Artforum, November 7 2018
Cat Power at The Kitchen, Artforum, October 17 2018
Yu’pik masks and Surrealists, Artforum, October 2018
A summer of Mary Halvorson, Artforum, September 14 2018
Electric Lady Studios, L'Officiel, August 28 2018
On Aretha Franklin's Young, Gifted and Black, Billboard, August 23 2018
An email conversation with Barbara Epler + Jacques Testard, Popula, August 17 2018
I Thought I Was Taking Medicine: 12 Years On Benzodiazepines, Popula, July 22 2018
Nick Cave, Artforum, June 26 2018
Julius Eastman, Village Voice, May 2 2018
The Stone on Avenue C closing, Artforum, April 2 2018
Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room, Bookforum, April/May 2018
Mark E. Smith (1958-2018), Village Voice, January 25 2018
Cardi B, The Village Voice, January 22 2018
"Some Notes on Betrayal," Medium, December 7 2017
PS 122, Departures, November 21 2017
Lee Gamble, Village Voice, November 1 2017
Adam Vitale’s The End of Policing, 4Columns, October 20 2017
"Blade Runner 2049: Bass b/w Gold," Medium, October 10 2017
Moses Sumney, Village Voice, October 19 2017
Tom Petty + classic rock, Billboard, October 16 2017
Tom Petty + 1979 radio, Village Voice, October 3 2017
Wordless Music Orchestra scores Jackie live at National Sawdust, September 26 2017
Roland Kayn, Village Voice, September 21 2017
Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing, Bookforum, Sept/Oct/Nov 2017
Maya Jane Coles, Village Voice, September 5 2017
Andrea Belfi, Village Voice, August 23 2017
Gerard Herman, Village Voice, August 2 2017
Roscoe Mitchell, Village Voice, July 26 2017
Mary Halvorson, Village Voice, July 12 2017
“The Theater of Security: Sean Spicer and the V-effect,” Medium, July 11 2017
Vince Staples, Village Voice, June 27 2017
Katy Perry, Village Voice, June 21 2017
Jaap Vink, 4 Columns, June 16 2017
Bryson Tiller, Village Voice, June 7 2017
Jlin, Village Voice, May 31 2017
Perfume Genius, Village Voice, May 24 2017
Bonnie Prince Billy, Guardian, May 16 2017
Actress, Stereogum, May 11 2017
Liquid Liquid, Pitchfork, April 2 2017
Mary Gaitskill's Somebody with a Little Hammer, Bookforum, Apr/May 2017
Lawrence English, NPR, April 17, 2017
Arthur Russell, Village Voice, April 18 2017
Sleaford Mods, Stereogum, March 29 2017
Paul La Farge, 4Columns, March 17 2017
The Necks, 4Columns, February 10 2017
Pharrell, Observer, February 12 2017
Anderson .Paak, Billboard, February 2 2017
Helado Negro, TrackRecord, December 14 2016
The Weeknd, Billboard, December 12 2016
Zadie Smith's Swing Time, Bookforum, Dec/Jan 2017
Leonard Cohen, Billboard, November 17 2016
Guardian, 2016—
Parenting after divorce, Guardian, October 14 2016
Sumo & Luca Prodan, MTV News, September 29 2016
The Get Down & Atlanta, The New Republic, September 6 2016
David Foster Wallace, Racquet, Issue 1, August 2016
“An N of 0,” The Smart Set, July 18 2016
Beyoncé and her fans, Guardian, June 25 2016
S/FJ blog, 2003—2010
Los Angeles Times, 2015—2016
Farmer in Deli, NY Times Magazine, June 21 2015
International Klein Blue, Departures, May 21 2015
Joshua Ferris’s To Rise Again At A Decent Hour, Bookforum, summer 2014
Paul Rudd, Guardian, September 29 2013
Cabinet anthology, Bookforum, April 2013
An advice column, The Paris Review, December 9 2011
A discussion of “The Social Network” with Natasha Vargas-Cooper, The Awl, October 5, 2010
A post on photography, the New York Times Lens blog, August, 2010.
The New-York Ghost, Vol. III, No. 42, 2008 (“Letters From a Fake Mustache to a Piece of Lady Fabric”)
Ghostface, Eric B & Rakim, Nas, Dem Franchize Boys, D4L, Guardian, March 16 2007
Timbaland and The Neptunes, NYT Magazine, February 8 2004
Slate, 2003—2004
Arthur Kempton’s Boogaloo, NYT Book Review, October 10 2003
Shania Twain, The Morning News, October 15 2003
Bhangra, NYT Arts + Leisure, August 3 2003
LA Weekly, 2000—2002
The Wire, 1997—2001
Plasitkman + Lithops, NYT Arts + Leisure, August 9 1998
Chicago Reader, 1997—2002