Selected Articles
"Skill Issues | Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Its Discontents" (The Drift, 2024)
is feeling good really a matter of skill?
"You Really Like Me" (The Baffler, 2024)
whatever happened to "likability" in politics?
"Boundary Issues" (Parapraxis Magazine, 2023)
where did "personal boundaries" come from, anyway?
"Boundaries are suddenly everywhere. What does the term actually mean?" (The Guardian, 2023)
slightly shorter, less nerdy version of the Parapraxis essay
on friendship, by way of BoJack Horseman
"Distantiated Communities" (Cabinet, 2020)
the history of "social distancing"
"Review of Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This" (Harvard Review, 2021)
book review
"No Free Trials" (Guernica, 2021)
the ethics and politics of clinical vaccine trials, from a first-person perspective
"Beasts of No Nation" (Jacket2, 2021)
essay on the invention of "invasive species" ecology and review of Marwa Helal's poems
"Home Alone With the NYT" (Avidly–a channel of LARB, 2021)
on lifestyle advice
"Fire and Brimstone in Southeast Chicago" (Belt, 2022)
on a neon pile of sulfur in the Rust Belt
"Remedial Art History for the German Far-Right" (Cabinet, 2019)
Orientalism turns up in far-right campaign aesthetics
"'I Am Talking to the Part of You that Does Not Speak'" (Harvard Magazine, 2021)
Laurie Anderson's six Zoom Norton lectures
"What a Human Should Be" (Harvard Magazine, 2019)
art exhibition review for the anniversary of the Bauhaus (I won an award for this one)