Selected Writing

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"The Enigma of John Donne," The Nation

 

"Fire Breather," a review of Gary Indiana's Fire Season for Art in America

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"Southern Appeal," a profile of the painter Bo Bartlett for Art in America

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"The Season of Hardwick,"The Los Angeles Review of Books 

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"Leonora Carrington's Irreverent Dreamscapes," The Nation

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"Photography in Fragments," Art in America 

 

"Swampland Sublime: The Landscapes of Louisiana," The New York Review of Books

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"The Debauched, Sometimes Sublime Essays of D.H. Lawrence," The Nation

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"The Slippery Talent of Emannuel Carrère," The Economist

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"Ursula von Rydingsvard," Artforum

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"In Search of William Gass," The Paris Review 

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"Xylor Jane," Artforum 

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On executive power and the "state of emergency," The New Statesman

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"Letter of Recommendation: Bunk Beds," The New York Times Magazine

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"Police Body Cameras Can't Replace Camera Phones," Boston Review

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"Executing Them Softly," The New York Times

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