CRITICISM & INTERVIEWS

Celluloid Dreams: Revolution and Its Enemies in Cold War Global Cinema, Los Angeles Review of Books (November 2024)

Discussion of Vittorio De Sica’s Shoeshine (1946), Seeing Faces in the Movies podcast (October 2024)

Learning from Decadence: An Interview with the Novelist Yuri Herrera, Los Angeles Review of Books (October 2024)

Discussion of Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942), The Canon podcast (September 2024)

Interviewed the novelist Nathan Knapp, Full Stop (July 2024)

Interviewed the novelist Kent Wascom, Southern Review of Books (May 2024)

Discussion of Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1966), What a Picture podcast (March 2024)

Still Alive by LJ Pemberton (review), Full Stop (March 2024)

Easing the Pain of Betrayal: On Jules Dassin’s Rififi (1955), Bright Wall/Dark Room (August 2023)

Game, Set, Match (review of Geoff Dyer’s The Last Days of Roger Federer), Los Angeles Review of Books (July 2022)

Strangers No More (review of Tom Lutz’s The Kindness of Strangers), Los Angeles Review of Books (November 2021)

A New Look at the Hobo (essay on “hobo” memoirs), Los Angeles Review of Books (August 2021)

Watkins’ World (essay on Peter Watkins’ 1971 film Punishment Park), Bright Wall/Dark Room (May 2021)

All Fracked Up (review of Michael Patrick F. Smith’s The Good Hand), High Country News (February 2021)

Interview with Brian Castleberry, Vol. 1 Brooklyn (June 2020)

The Lonely Pages of Jazz (review of Sam V. H. Reese’s Blue Notes), Chicago Review of Books (September 2019)

“Half A Damn Excuse”: Tragic Vigilantism in Paul Schrader’s Affliction, Bright Wall/Dark Room (November 2019)

Interview with Joshua Wheeler, Vol. 1 Brooklyn (April 2018)

Belief, Disbelief, and Truth (review of Zachary Lazar’s novel Vengeance), Vol. 1 Brooklyn (February 2018)

PERSONAL ESSAYS

The Failed Saint: On George Orwell’s India, Los Angeles Review of Books (January 2024)

Homage to Córdoba, Gulf Coast (August 2020)

To the Traveler Who Saved Me From Drowning, Off Assignment (July 2020)

Sometimes We Need a Guide (how Fugazi changed my life), Vol. 1 Brooklyn (January 2017)

JOURNALISM

A Night in Dakar, Country Roads (February 2023)

Paddling Places Primeval, Country Roads (January 2023)

The Village of Versailles (the Vietnamese food community in New Orleans), Country Roads (July 2022)

Louisiana’s Golden Age of Boxing, Country Roads (December 2021)

Perseverance Endures at Le Bakery & Cafe, The Local Palate (September 2021)

Abolitionist Library Workers Want Library Access for All, In These Times (August 2021)

Profile of Louisiana artist Douglas Bourgeois, Country Roads (August 2021)

Forgotten Camps, Living History: Reckoning with the Legacy of Japanese Internment in the South, The Bitter Southerner (February 2021)

Meet the Southern Librarians Fighting for Racial Justice and Truth-Telling, Scalawag (December 2020)

Ain’t Down No More: The Life and Music of Little Freddie King, Country Roads (September 2021)

Nippon Orleans: On the Japanese ex-pat jazz scene in New Orleans, Country Roads (January 2020)

The Golden Girls of Punk, Country Roads (April 2019)

FICTION

Fidelity, Jellyfish Review (February 2018)

Teaching, Cleaver Magazine (June 2016)