I am 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, City Pages, Film Journal International, Film Racket, Film Threat, In These Times, Kirkus Reviews, Little White Lies, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, PopMatters, Publishers Weekly, PW Comics Week, Playboy, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Slant, The Millions, The Playlist, Virginia Quarterly Review, Where New York, and Yahoo!
MOVIE REVIEWS / ARTICLES
Complete movie review database
- “The Only Thing to Fear in Us is…” – PopMatters (March 20, 2019)
- “Roma is Painfully Beautiful” – PopMatters (December 14, 2018)
- “Fame is Fickle in The American Meme” – Eyes Wide Open (December 5, 2018)
- “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)
