Selected Writing
"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
"Good, Likeable People Who Love Each Other" (Post45 Contemporaries, 2020)
on friendship, through the lens 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 of clinical vaccine trials
"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
interview with Time Magazine about Cabinet article
"Fire and Brimstone in Southeast Chicago" (Belt, 2022)
on a neon pile of sulfur in the rust belt
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 performance 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)
"Ringing in Your Ears" (Cabinet, 2019)
a Holocaust memorial made of doorbells