Tag: essay
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Read “On Privacy, Paranoia, and Genre” in the Los Angeles Review of Books
I’m pleased to publish this timely review essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books on three books about privacy, paranoia, and genre. You can find the essay here. Thank you for reading!
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Read “Fast & Furious: Cypriot Drift” in The Cyprus Files
In this week’s “Cyprus Files” newsletter, learn about my adventures driving on the LEFT side of the road in Cyprus—and my experience at the local equivalent of the DMV. Thanks for reading, and be sure to follow The Usonian for more dispatches from Cyprus.
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Read “’Not a Self-Portrait’: Lynne Sachs’ ‘Film About a Father Who’ Unspools the Collateral Damage of a Problematic Father” in the Los Angeles Review of Books
I’m proud to publish my first essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books, a review of Lynne Sachs’ new documentary, “Film About a Father Who,” now available on the Criterion Channel. “Film About a Father Who” raises tough questions about what it means for a filmmaker to make a documentary about their own problematic…
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Read “The reimagined Mosquito Coast is a Hitchcockian chase thriller with a social critique” in CrimeReads
I’m thrilled to publish an essay in CrimeReads about Paul Theroux’s novel “The Mosquito Coast”, the new Apple TV+ adaptation starring Justin Theroux, and the narrative’s criticism of the American “pioneer spirit.” Check out the essay here. Thanks for reading!
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Read “No ‘I’ in Travel?: Travel writing in the Trump era” in The Startup
Travel writing has a long and storied history, dating back to the time of Herodotus. But what is the place of travel writing in the 21st century? Should travel writing be written by a traveler, or by people who live in the places being written about in question? Should travel writing use the first-person perspective?…
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Read “The Rise of Skywalker’s Story Problem” on Medium
Two years ago, I wrote The Last Jedi had a ‘snark problem,’ a critique that resonated with more than 10k readers and was featured as an audio story (!). Well, this time The Rise of Skywalker has a ‘story problem’—a cavalier attitude toward storytelling that renders the movie into a series of cheap workarounds which…
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Read: “Biden in Reno: ‘Trump pursued a personal political vendetta against me’”
On Wednesday, October 2, 2019, former vice president Joe Biden visited Reno and immediately set about addressing Trump’s false claims in the wake of the rapidly mushrooming Ukraine scandal. Read my essay in Medium, the fourth post in my Reno Election 2020 politics series.
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Read: “When the power went out on Mayor Pete in Sparks, Nevada” on Medium
As the battle for Nevada’s Democratic caucus votes ramp up, so will my political reporting. Yesterday, Pete Buttigieg captivated a Sparks audience before a power outage curtailed the mayor’s appearance. Read about what I thought of Pete in my third post observing the Reno campaign trail.
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Read: “Misinformation Cinema” on Medium
At last week’s “Writers for Migrant Justice” event in Reno, I presented an essay I’d been thinking about writing for a long time, explaining why Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) is an irresponsible film. Since I watched that film for the first time, the news has made the film more relevant as an example of…
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Read “Breaking My Nose” in Nassau Weekly 40th Anniversary Issue
This week, The Nassau Weekly, a weekly newspaper at Princeton University, published an issue honoring its 40th anniversary. The Nass was founded in 1979 by three students, including David Remnick, current editor of The New Yorker. I became a contributor to the Nass in my senior year, and I’m glad it was part of my undergraduate…