Music

On Political Music & Corporate Cooptation (Paste) • A Profile on Danny Elfman (Under the Radar) • On OK Computer (Gawker) • An Interview with Patrick Carney of The Black Keys (Under the Radar) • On the Death of the iPod (Gawker) • An Interview with Daniel Rossen (Under the Radar) • An Interview with Dan Bejar of Destroyer (Under the Radar) • On Tom Jobim & The Music of Spring (Gawker) • On Vibes Shifts & The New York Indie Scene (Gawker) • On Eddie Vedder (Gawker) • On Siouxsie & The Banshees (Gawker) On Trailer Music (Gawker) • On Music Festivals & Returning to Society (Gawker) • On Drumming & Dave Grohl (Gawker) • On The Killers’ Pressure Machine (Gawker) • An Interview with Hiatus Kaiyote (NPR Music) • An Interview with Hanif Abdurraqib (Soft Punk Mag) • On Hozier & The Language of Feeling (Triangle House) • On Nine Inch Nails & The Apocalyptic Imaginary (The Believer) • On The Killers & The Mythic Southwest (The Point) • On Pearl Jam’s Ten (68to05) • On Black Death & Radiohead (The Rumpus)

Movies & TV

HEY IT’S THAT GUY, a Defector column on character actors

On Prometheus & the Martian (Bright Wall/Dark Room) • On Origin (Defector) • On Evil Dead Rise (Bright Wall/Dark Room) • On Killers of the Flower Moon (Bright Wall/Dark Room) • On Criticism and Malcolm & Marie (Reverse Shot) • On The Blair Witch Project (Reverse Shot) • On The Exorcist: Believer (Bloodvine) • On 3:10 to Yuma & The Western (Bright Wall/Dark Room) • On Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Bright Wall/Dark Room) • On Barbie (Defector) • On The Flash & IP (Defector) • On Master Gardener (Film Comment) • On Mrs. Davis, AI, & Faith (LA Review of Books) • On AIR (Fran Magazine) • On John Wick, Guns, & Reality (Defector) • On R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity (Reverse Shot) • On Michael Richards (Still Alive Magazine) • On Physical 100 (Defector) • On Skinamarink (Bright Wall/Dark Room) • On Armageddon Time (Bright Wall/Dark Room) • On Nuclear War in Film (The Baffler) • On Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Film Comment) • On Barbarian (Gawker) • On NOPE (Reverse Shot) • On An American Werewolf in London (Reverse Shot) • On John Carpenter’s The Thing (Gawker) • On Top Gun (Gawker) • On The Northman (Film Comment) • On Buster Keaton (Gawker) • On The Prestige (Bright Wall/Dark Room) • On Neu-Horror (Gawker) • Sundance 2022: The Complicated Woman (Gawker) • On Ben Affleck & the Last Duel (Gawker) • On Annabelle: Creation (Reverse Shot) • On The Matrix Trilogy (Defector) • On C’mon C’mon (Gawker) • On David Fincher (Defector) • On The Shining as Thanksgiving Movie (Gawker) • On All Light, Everywhere (Gawker) • On Passing (Reverse Shot) • On The Spider Guy from Dune (Gawker) • On James Wan’s Malignant (Defector) • On Metaphors & Horror Movies (Gawker) • On Nia DaCosta’s Candyman (Film Comment) • On Tom Cruise (Gawker) • On Dev Patel & Non-Traditional Casting (Vulture) • On The Green Knight (Reverse Shot) • On Black Widow (Defector) • On Amazon & MGM (The Guardian) • On Seinfeld (Defector) • On Saint Maud (Bright Wall/Dark Room) • On Ben Affleck & The Way Back (Defector) • On Exterminate All The Brutes (Mic) • On Judas & The Black Messiah (Sight & Sound) • On Netflix’s Amend (Mic) • Sundance Dispatches One & Two (Reverse Shot) • On Malcolm & Marie (Mic) • On Let The Right One In (Reverse Shot) • On Host & Found Footage (Reverse Shot) • On Tragic Jungle (Reverse Shot) • On Small Axe (Reverse Shot) • On The Woman Who Ran (Reverse Shot) • On The Vast of Night (Reverse Shot) • On Lake Mungo (Reverse Shot) • On Bacurau (Reverse Shot) • On Tarsem’s The Fall (Bright Wall/Dark Room) • On Ghosts In Film (The Believer) • On Beanpole (Film Comment) • • On Stunt Doubles (The Believer) • On Pizza Boys In Film (The Believer) • On The Shawshank Redemption (Bright Wall/Dark Room) • On Mental Illness & Horror (The Rumpus) • On Guillermo Del Toro’s Catholic Influences (Little White Lies)

Books & Lit

On Moby-Dick (Defector) • On Slough House (Defector) • On The Rebirth of The Believer (Defector) On Moon Knight (Gawker) • On Laurie Colwin & Happy All The Time (Gawker) • On Writing By Hand (Gawker) • On Dave Eggers’ The Every (Gawker) • On The Shuttering of the Believer (Gawker) • On Bookselling & Netflix’s You (Gawker) • On Ambrose Bierce (Gawker) • On Swamp Thing (Gawker) • On Brian Evenson’s The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell (Defector) • On Obama & Political Disappointment (The Guardian) • On Space, Spending, & Who Gets Left Behind (The Guardian) • On Bookselling In 2020 (Nevada Humanities) • An Interview with Kristen Arnett (The Believer) • On Ted Chiang’s Exhalation (Strange Horizons)

Personal, Opinion, & Reported (which may be related to any or all of the above)

On Las Vegas & the Super Bowl (Defector) • On Art, Uncertainty, & Measuring Time (Mental Hellth) • On the Symbolism of the Hood (The Point) • On Reading Lists, Bookstores, and Activism (Defector) • On Michael Heizer’s CITY (Defector) • On Protest and Palestine (Defector) • On Solidarity & the UPS Strike (County Highway) • On Las Vegas’s Culinary Union (The Nation) • On NPCs & the Real World (Mental Hellth) • On Christian Influencers at the Christian Influencer Convention (Defector) • On Imperfect Grief (Mental Hellth) • On Matthew McConaughey’s Turn to Lifestyle Coaching (Defector) • On Tyre Nichols, Orson Welles, & Police Abolition (Defector) • On Tony Hsieh & Downtown Las Vegas (The Baffler) • On Las Vegas’ Chinatown (Vice) • On Jonestown (The Point) • On True Crime & CrimeCon (Defector) • On Stuff (Gawker) • On Jackass & Misspent Youth (Gawker) • On Immersive Art (Observer) • On Midnight Mass (Gawker) • On Memory & Match Cuts (The Believer) • On Black Cops (Gawker) • On Running & Oblivion (Defector) • On Being Tall (Gawker) • On Shitty Customers (Gawker) • On The Indictment of Derek Chauvin (The Guardian) • On Ghost Towns & COVID (The Point) • On Black Home Ownership (GENmag) • On Heritage, Ireland, & Slavery (The Smart Set) • On Racism at the Movie Theater (Reverse Shot) • On Being Black Outside (LEVEL) • On Basketball & Monsters (The Rumpus) • On Mikayla Whitmore & Social Media Photography (Hyperallergic)