MOVIES
Rotten Tomatoes / Letterboxd / Eyes Wide Open
- “Berlinale 2023: Long Live the Film Festival!” – Eyes Wide Open
- “America, We Have a Batman Problem” – Eyes Wide Open
- “The Velvet Underground Film and the Exploding Lou Reed Inevitable” – PopMatters
- “The Only Thing to Fear in Us is…” – PopMatters
- “Isle of Dogs – Still Life with Wasabi Poison” – Eyes Wide Open
- “Why the Tribeca Film Festival Was Right to Pull Vaxxed” – Little White Lies
- “Bill Murray’s Moonage Daydream in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” – Eyes Wide Open
- “Spotlight Might Be the Best Film About Journalism Ever Made” – Eyes Wide Open
- “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck” – Film Racket
- “2014: A Most Mediocre Year” – PopMatters
- “Tribeca Film Festival 2014 Parts I, II, III, and IV” – PopMatters
- “The Academy Awards are Decadent and Depraved” – Short Ends & Leader
- “What ‘True Romance’ Did for Tony Scott and Hollywood” – PopMatters
- “The Sins of the Father in ‘2016: Obama’s America’” – PopMatters
- “The Five Greatest Martin Scorsese Oddities” – Short Ends & Leader
- “The Not-Quite-Lost Art of the Movie Poster” – Short Ends & Leader
BOOKS
- “Quentin Tarantino Writes Books Now” – The Millions
- “Could Longtermism Cause Short-Term Damage?” – PopMatters
- “The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman” – Minneapolis Star-Tribune
- “John McWhorter’s Polemic Woke Racism” – PopMatters
- “So You Want to be a Writer? A Roundup of Helpful Books” – Minneapolis Star-Tribune
- “The Afghanistan Papers Reveals How Not to Fight a War” – PopMatters
- “The Passenger” – Rain Taxi Review of Books
- “Should We Still Read Norman Mailer?” – The Millions
- “Even Orwell Can’t Get Us Through a Trump Presidency” – PopMatters
- “Why Are So Many White Americans so Fearful These Days?” – PopMatters
- “To Hell With All That Guilty Love: On Steve Almond’s Against Football” – The Millions
- “The Good Inn: The Pixies Film That Never Was” – Avidly
- “The 2009 Book that Foretold the Possible Collapse of Post-American Iraq” – Re:Print
- Dublin Writers Festival 2014: “Making Artful Fiction Out of History” / “The State of Crime” / “Where the Disappeared Lie“
- “The Ghosts of Wrath” – Barnes & Noble Review
- “The Drowning Pool: When Great Writers Are Drunks” – PopMatters
- “Best Books of 2013” – PopMatters
- “Dallas 1963” – The Barnes & Noble Review
- “Free to Be Depressed and Alone: George Packer’s The Unwinding” – The Millions
- “Going Clear: Lawyers, Guns, Money, and Scientology” – PopMatters
- “Woe Is Us: What’s the Matter with White People?” – PopMatters
- “Those Grand, Wicked Futures: The Library of America’s ‘American Science Fiction Classics of the 1950s’” – The Millions
- “Worlds Beyond Your Ken: A Guide to the Nebula Awards” – The Millions
- “A Dance with Dragons” – The Barnes & Noble Review
- “Swamplandia Casts a Wicked Spell” – PopMatters
- “The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard” – The Barnes & Noble Review
- “Chronicling Catastrophe: Dave Eggers and the American Nonfiction Novel” – PopMatters
- “War Without Warriors” – In These Times
- “Send in the Clown: P.J. O’Rourke on The Wealth of Nations” – Chicago Reader
- “What’s the Matter with Wal-Mart?” – Chicago Reader
- “Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America Creates Alternate, Anti-Semitic U.S. History” – Yahoo!
- “Battle Lines: A Selection of Books That Look at War Through the Eyes of Those Who Wrote About It” – Chicago Tribune
- “William Gibson’s All Tomorrow’s Parties” – Chicago Tribune
TV / STREAMING
- “The Rings of Power Review: A Storm Gathers, Ever So Slowly” – Slant
- “Slow Horses: A Half-Clever, Half-Derivative Espionage Story” – Slant
- “We Need to Talk About Cosby” – Slant
- “Roseanne Barr: A Curdled Avatar of White Resentment” – PopMatters
- “His Girl Friday: What a Difference One Sex Change Makes“ – PopMatters
- “Does The Jinx Give a Platform to a Possible Murderer?” – PopMatters
- “Sadness Like Shrapnel: The Killing: Season One” – PopMatters
- “Oh, Indeed: The Wire and False Choices” – Channel Surfing
- “Community: The Second Season Damns the Torpedoes” – PopMatters
- “Heat: Special Edition” – Film Threat
- “The Wire: The Complete First Season” – Slant Magazine
- “Clerks: Tenth Anniversary Edition” – Slant Magazine
COMICS / GRAPHIC NOVELS
- “Prestige Comics: On the Penguin Classics Marvel Collection” – The Millions
- “Graphic Novels: Families, Friends and Complications” – Minneapolis Star-Tribune
- “America as a Work in Progress: PW Talks with Dan Rather” – Publishers Weekly
- “Autoptic Festival Showcases Small Press Comics” – Publishers Weekly
- “Jerusalem: Where We Are Today” – PopMatters
- “Hark! A Vagrant Tops 2011 PW Comics Week Critics Poll” – PW Comics Week
- “Blue Pills – Absolutely Lovely” – PW Comics Week
- “Kafka” – Bookslut
- “Locas: Graphic Novel of the Year” – Yahoo
OTHER WRITING
- “The Replacements: September 15, 2013” – PopMatters
- “Liquid City: Hollywood’s Love Affair with NYC’s Iconic Watering Holes” – Where Guestbook
- “President Obama and the Long Fade” – PopMatters
- “Slice of Heaven” – Where New York
IN THE MEDIA
- Interview – Cool Breeze Over the Mountains podcast
- “Invasion of the Friendly Movie Robots” – Wall Street Journal
- “Silver Screen Travel” – Luxury Travel Mavens
- “Writers, Directors Fear the Sci-Fi Label” – Wired
- “On Ray Bradbury’s birthday” – Maud Newton
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