Writing
Uncancel Culture | Creem | June 2024
The Strange Villainization of the Walkable City | The New Republic | May 2024
The Case Against YIMBYism | The New Republic | March 2024
The Landlords of TikTok Seem Happy to Play the Villain | The New York Times Magazine | October 2023
Please Shill Me | The Baffler | July 2023
More Building Won’t Make Housing Affordable | The New Republic | February 2023
When Henry Met Joe | Creem | November 2022
The Way We Talk About Nature Is Getting Weirder | The Atlantic | July 2022
From Broken Cities, a Plea for Grassroots Fixes | CityLab | July 2022
The Unraveling of SST Records | The New Republic | May 2022
The Irresistible Appeal of the ‘Post-Industrial Park’ | CityLab | March 2022
Escape From Little Island | The Baffler | June 2021
Affordable Housing Forever | The New York Times | April 2021
I Saw the Sign | The Baffler | October 2020
One Man’s Trash | The Baffler | September 2020
The Lost & Found Archives | The Paris Review | November 2019
How “Landscape Urbanism” is Making Gentrification Look Like Fun | The Washington Post | November 2019
What Police-Community Reconciliation Can Look Like | CityLab | October 2019
Get Out of the Van | The Baffler | September 2019
Trading in the Emotional Economy | Los Angeles Review of Books | August 2019
Climbing Icy Driveways and Settling Down to Write | Los Angeles Review of Books | February 2019
Buried Behind All the Rubble | Medium | January 2019
A Vacation in the Void | The New Republic | January 2019
The Rise of the Mindful Museum | The Baffler | January 2019
How to Create Safer Public Housing Projects | CityLab | November 2018
Suffering Visible | Los Angeles Review of Books | September 2018
Among the Extremists on Campus | The New Republic | August 2018
Spirit of the Strip Mall | The New Republic | May 2018
The Power of the Word | The Nation | April 2018
A Male Feminist’s Crisis | The New Republic | April 2018
Birding with Max Ernst | Hyperallergic | December 2017
Uncomfortably Numb | Los Angeles Review of Books | December 2017
The High Line is Trolling Us | CityLab | November 2017
New Research on Lynching in America | Hyperallergic | October 2017