Peer-Reviewed Publications

“The Voice of the Internet,” Representations, forthcoming Fall 2024

“Command of Media’s Metaphors,” Critical Inquiry 47.4 (Summer 2021): 644-674.

“The Medium Concept,” Representations 150 (Spring 2020): 61-90.

“The Reality Contract: Rope, Birdman, and the Economy of the Single-Shot Film” nonsite.org issue 22 (November 2017)

Selected Essays and Reviews

“Anora’s Honor,” with D.A. Miller, NYRB, November 2024
“Life in The Algorithm,” The Yale Review, December 2023
“Managing Monstrosity,” with D.A. Miller, on Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster, NYRB, December 2023
“The Jargonauts,” on the films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, NYRB, July 2023
“Wages for Housewives,” NYRB, May 2023
“Carnal Knowledge,” on Catherine Breillat’s 39 Fillette, Metrograph, Feb 2023
"The Way We Were,” on Annie Ernaux’s The Super 8 Years, Jan 2023
“Eraser Marks,” on Claire Denis’s Both Sides of the Blade and Stars at Noon, NYRB. Oct 2022
“Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time,” in Reading with Godard (Caboose Books, 2022)
Review of David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, with D.A. Miller, NYRB. Aug 2022
“The Larger Story: A Conversation with Anna Shechtman” The Point, April 5, 2022
Review of Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers, with D.A. Miller, ArtForum, Jan 2022
Black-and-White Thinking” The New Yorker, December 27, 2021
“Native Son and the Cinematic Aspirations of Richard Wright” newyorker.com, April 4, 2019
“The Pity of Okja,” The New Inquiry, July 20, 2017
“David Foster Wallace’s Closed Circuit,” review of The End of the Tour, LARB, July 25, 2015
“Too Faithful to Succeed: On Inherent Vice,” LARB, January 9, 2015 
“Puzzle Trouble: Women and Crosswords in the Age of Autofill,” The American Reader, August 13, 2014