public writing
Essays
“David Lynch’s Wonderful Weather” Reactor 29 January 2025.
“It Hardly Hurt a Bit” The North Dakota Quarterly 87.3/4 (Fall/Winter 2020), pp. 73-78.
“Slacker’s Labor Day” The Smart Set 1 April 2019.
“How Capitalism Took Over Sports Movies” The Atlantic 8 May 2016.
“David Fincher’s Alien Autopsy” Film International 13:3 (Fall 2015) 144-147.
“When the Levees Broke” The Atlantic 23 August 2015.
“The Eye of Sauron: David Foster Wallace and the Interview” Just Words 18 July 2015.
“Caught in the Bandana Trap: A Radically Condensed History of David Foster Wallace’s Bandana” Just Words 30 June 2015.
“Reading Wallace Reading” The Smart Set 17 August 2014.
*Named as a Notable Literary Essay, Best American Essays 2015.
“Haneke’s Home Invasion: Three Looks at Funny Games (2008)” Scope 16: February 2010.
“Deciphering the Indecipherable: Procedure as Art in Fincher’s Zodiac” Bright Lights Film Journal 67, February 2010.
Reviews
Embers Sonder Magazine. 27 January 2016.
Don DeLillo: Mao II, Underworld, Falling Man. English Studies 95:3 (2014), pp. 349-350.
Paths of Glory (Criterion Collection DVD). Film International 10:4-5 (2012), pp. 113-115.
Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language. Film International 9:5 (2011), pp. 73-74.
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Cultographies Series) Scope 19: February 2011.
Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko Film International 8:1 (February 2010), pp. 64-66.
Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard Bright Lights Film Journal 64, May 2009.