I am currently a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the Online Film Critics Society.
Some of the fine publications I have written for include: Barnes & Noble Review, Book Magazine, Bookslut, Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, Film Journal International, Film Racket, Film Threat, In These Times, Kirkus Reviews, Little White Lies, Minneapolis City Pages, PopMatters, Publishers Weekly, PW Comics Week, Playboy, RainTaxi Review of Books, Slant, The Millions, The Playlist, Virginia Quarterly Review, Where New York, and Yahoo!
MOVIE REVIEWS / ARTICLES
Complete movie review database
- “Flinty, Funny Private Life is the Type of Smart Comedy that Shouldn’t Get Lost on Netflix” – The Playlist (October 13, 2018)
- “In Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring, God Sees But Does Not Act” – PopMatters (September 28, 2018)
- “Agnes Varda’s One Sings, the Other Doesn’t is a Giddy and Thoughtful Feminist Musical” – The Playlist (June 3, 2018)
- “Isle of Dogs – Still Life with Wasabi Poison” – Eyes Wide Open (March 23, 2018)
- “The Deadly Beautiful Phantom Thread is Why We Need Daniel Day-Lewis” – Eyes Wide Open (December 16, 2017)
- “With The Last Jedi, the Star Wars Universe Keeps Feeding On Its Own Mythology” – The Playlist (December 15, 2017)
- “The Florida Project: How People Fall Through the Cracks in America” – PopMatters (October 2, 2017)
- “Harry Dean Stanton’s swan song in Lucky” – Film Journal International (September 27, 2017)
- “Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk” – Film Journal International (July 20, 2017)
- “Okja is the Summer’s Activist Epic” – PopMatters (June 14, 2017)
- “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” – Film Journal International (April 28, 2017)
- “LA 92 is a Harrowing, Incendiary Epic of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots” – The Playlist (April 28, 2017)
- “Daydream Nation: Dark Night, Slenderman, and the Erosion of Reality” – Eyes Wide Open (February 15, 2017)
- “The Man Who Fell to Earth is Strictly a Vehicle for David Bowie” – PopMatters (January 24, 2017)
- “Why the Tribeca Film Festival Was Right to Pull Vaxxed” – Little White Lies (March 2016)
- “Bill Murray’s Moonage Daydream in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” – Eyes Wide Open (February 19, 2016)
- “In The Witch, the Old Fantasies Are Terrifyingly True” – PopMatters (February 17, 2016)
- “Spotlight Might Be the Best Film About Journalism Ever Made” – Eyes Wide Open (December 20, 2015)
- “Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a Fun But Shamelessly Pandering Cash Grab” – PopMatters (December 16, 2015)
- “Chaos Reigns in Mad Max: Fury Road” – Short Ends & Leader (May 18, 2015)
- “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck” – Film Racket (May 1, 2015)
- “2014: A Most Mediocre Year” – PopMatters (December 31, 2014)
- “Tribeca Film Festival 2014 Parts I, II, III, and IV” – PopMatters
- “The Academy Awards are Decadent and Depraved” – Short Ends & Leader (February 26, 2013)
- “What ‘True Romance’ Did for Tony Scott and Hollywood” – PopMatters (August 23, 2012)
- “The Sins of the Father in ‘2016: Obama’s America’” – PopMatters (August 23, 2012)
- “Another Movie Marvel: Joss Whedon directs super cast for conclave of comic-book heroes” – Film Journal International (April 25, 2012)
- “The Five Greatest Martin Scorsese Oddities” – Short Ends & Leader (March 6, 2012)
- “Movies 2011: American Gothic” – PopMatters (January 16, 2012)
- “The Tree of Life” – Film Journal International (May 25, 2011)
- “The Not-Quite-Lost Art of the Movie Poster” – Short Ends & Leader (April 6, 2011)
BOOK REVIEWS / ARTICLES
- “Should We Still Read Norman Mailer?” – The Millions (May 9, 2018)
- “Is Fire and Fury Trump’s Harvey Weinstein Moment?” – PopMatters (January 10, 2018)
- “Even Orwell Can’t Get Us Through a Trump Presidency” – PopMatters (February 12, 2017)
- “Why Are So Many White Americans so Fearful These Days?” – PopMatters (October 17, 2016)
- “All the Light We Cannot See: People in the Dark, Hunting the Right Frequency” – PopMatters (January 26, 2015)
- “To Hell With All That Guilty Love: On Steve Almond’s Against Football” – The Millions (November 14, 2014)
- “The Good Inn: The Pixies Film That Never Was” – Avidly (September 30, 2014)
- “The 2009 Book that Foretold the Possible Collapse of Post-American Iraq” – Re:Print (June 19, 2014)
- Dublin Writers Festival 2014: “Making Artful Fiction Out of History” / “The State of Crime” / “Where the Disappeared Lie” (May 2014)
- “The Ghosts of Wrath” – Barnes & Noble Review (April 16, 2014)
- “The Drowning Pool: When Great Writers Are Drunks” – PopMatters (March 10, 2014)
- “Best Books of 2013” – PopMatters (January 17, 2014)
- “Dallas 1963” – The Barnes & Noble Review (November 22, 2013)
- “Free to Be Depressed and Alone: George Packer’s The Unwinding” – The Millions (May 23, 2013)
- “Going Clear: Lawyers, Guns, Money, and Scientology” – PopMatters (February 20, 2013)
- “Woe Is Us: What’s the Matter with White People?” – PopMatters (October 11, 2012)
- “Those Grand, Wicked Futures: The Library of America’s ‘American Science Fiction Classics of the 1950s’” – The Millions (September 26, 2012)
- “Worlds Beyond Your Ken: A Guide to the Nebula Awards” – The Millions (May 14, 2012)
- “A Dance with Dragons” – The Barnes & Noble Review (July 12, 2011)
- “Swamplandia Casts a Wicked Spell” – PopMatters (March 4, 2011)
- “The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard” – The Barnes & Noble Review (September 14, 2009)
- “Chronicling Catastrophe: Dave Eggers and the American Nonfiction Novel” – PopMatters (August 11, 2009)
- “War Without Warriors” – In These Times (February 21, 2009)
- “Send in the Clown: P.J. O’Rourke on The Wealth of Nations” – Chicago Reader (February 15, 2007)
- “What’s the Matter with Wal-Mart?” – Chicago Reader (February 9, 2006)
- “Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America Creates Alternate, Anti-Semitic U.S. History” – Yahoo! (June 5, 2005)
- “Battle Lines: A Selection of Books That Look at War Through the Eyes of Those Who Wrote About It” – Chicago Tribune (January 16, 2000)
- “William Gibson’s All Tomorrow’s Parties” – Chicago Tribune (November 28, 1999)
TV/DVD REVIEWS / ARTICLES
- “Roseanne Barr: A Curdled Avatar of White Resentment” – PopMatters (May 30, 2018)
- “His Girl Friday: What a Difference One Sex Change Makes“ – PopMatters (January 17, 2017)
- “Does The Jinx Give a Platform to a Possible Murderer?” – PopMatters (February 9, 2015)
- “Sadness Like Shrapnel: The Killing: Season One” – PopMatters (March 22, 2012)
- “Oh, Indeed: The Wire and False Choices” – Channel Surfing (March 8, 2012)
- “Community: The Second Season Damns the Torpedoes” – PopMatters (September 27, 2011)
- “Heat: Special Edition” – Film Threat (February 22, 2005)
- “The Wire: The Complete First Season” – Slant Magazine (October 19, 2004)
- “Clerks: Tenth Anniversary Edition” – Slant Magazine (September 9, 2004)
COMICS / GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEWS
- “Jerusalem: Where We Are Today” – PopMatters (June 8, 2012)
- “Hark! A Vagrant Tops 2011 PW Comics Week Critics Poll” – PW Comics Week (January 10, 2012)
- “Blue Pills – Absolutely Lovely” – PW Comics Week (February 12, 2008)
- “Kafka” – Bookslut (June 2007)
- “Locas: Graphic Novel of the Year” – Yahoo! (June 2, 2005)
OTHER WRITING
- “The Replacements: September 15, 2013” – PopMatters (October 4, 2013)
- “Liquid City: Hollywood’s Love Affair with NYC’s Iconic Watering Holes” – Where Guestbook (2013 edition)
- “President Obama and the Long Fade” – PopMatters (November 4, 2010)
- “Slice of Heaven” – Where New York (October 2008)
IN THE MEDIA
- “Invasion of the Friendly Movie Robots” – Wall Street Journal (February 26, 2015)
- “Silver Screen Travel” – Luxury Travel Mavens (February 2, 2013)
- “Writers, Directors Fear the Sci-Fi Label” – Wired (April 12, 2007)
- “On Ray Bradbury’s birthday” – Maud Newton (August 22, 2006)
