CRITICISM, ESSAYS, & JOURNALISM

Interview: Crudely Determined Assumptions

“How Bad Bunny Saved the Grammys” The New Yorker

“The Forecast Wars on Weather Twitter” The New Yorker

“Grok and the A.I. Porn Problem” The New Yorker

“Why Albums Drop and Movies Launch” The New Yorker

“Adam Friedland’s Comedy of Discomforts” The New Yorker

Shlohmo’s Repulsor, Pitchfork

“The Redemption of Chance the Rapper” The New Yorker

Podcast: “What Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025?" The New Yorker

“How Podcasts are Transforming the Presidential Election" The New Yorker

Derby’s Slugger Pitchfork

Twin Shadow’s GeorgiePitchfork

Bon Iver’s “Everything Is Peaceful Love” Pitchfork

Khari Lucas’ Take Off from MercyPitchfork

Bon Iver’s SABLE. Pitchfork

Role Model’s Kansas AnymorePitchfork

“The Hosts of Journalism’s Favorite Podcast Say Goodbye” The New York Times

2hollis’ boyPitchfork

How to Dress Well’s I Am Toward YouPitchfork

Mount Kimbie’s The Sunset Violent Pitchfork

Nourished by Time’s Catching ChickensPitchfork

1010Benja’s Ten TotalPitchfork

Mk.gee’s Two Star & the Dream PolicePitchfork

“Skip Shot” Victory Journal

dreamTX’s Living in Memory of Something SweetPitchfork

John Carroll Kirby’s BlowoutPitchfork

The Japanese House’s In the End It Always Does Pitchfork

“Balmorhea’s Music is Unbound From Space and Time—but Not Texas” Texas Monthly

“Brevin Kim’s Big, Bleeding Heart” Spin

Westerman’s An Inbuilt FaultPitchfork

James Ivy’s Everything Perfect Pitchfork

Sam Gendel’s CookupPitchfork

U.S. Girls’ Bless This Mess Pitchfork

“Jane Remover’s Outer Space” The FADER

“On Lil Yachty’s Psychedelic Pivot” GQ

“The Model Behind the Athleisure Label Friends With Animals” The New York Times

S.G. Lewis’ AudioLust & HigherLovePitchfork

Metro Boomin’s Heroes & VillainsPitchfork

Beatenberg’s On the Way to Beatenberg Pitchfork

“Brockhampton Breaks Up—Twice” Texas Monthly

Phoenix’s Alpha ZuluPitchfork

Hawa’s Hadja BangouraPitchfork

Dear Nora’s Human FuturePitchfork

Nick Hakim’s CometaP itchfork

The 1975’s Being Funny in a Foreign LanguagePitchfork

Kenny Beats’ Louie Pitchfork

Lean Years’ SidesPitchfork

“Why Bonnie’s Nostalgic Alt-Rock Searches for a Higher Meaning” Alternative Press

Tink’s Pillow TalkPitchfork

Art Moore’s Art MoorePitchfork

Day Wave’s Pastlife Pitchfork

Julien Baker’s B-SidesPitchfork

Sunday Review: Ja Rule’s Pain is LovePitchfork

“The Surprising Southern Dance Roots of Beyoncé’s Renaissance” Texas Monthly

Wet’s Pink RoomPitchfork

Logic’s Vinyl DaysPitchfork

“Drake’s Passionate, Calculated Love Affair with Houston” Texas Monthly

M Field’s Re: M FieldPitchfork

Tate McRae’s i used to think i could fly Pitchfork

Hovvdy’s Billboard for My Feeling Pitchfork

Hatchie’s Giving the World AwayPitchfork

Christian Alexander I Don’t Like YouPitchfork

BAYNK’s AdolescencePitchfork

midwxst’s better luck next timePitchfork

waveform*’s Last RoomPitchfork

Majid Jordan’s Wildest DreamsPitchfork

Hovvdy’s True LovePitchfork

Jonathan Franzen’s CrossroadsChicago Review of Books

“Searching for an American Epistemology in Lost in Summerland” Ploughshares

“Decoding the Silences in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora” Ploughshares

“Seeking Meaning and Survival in Something Wonderful” Ploughshares

Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water Ploughshares

Joseph Andras’ Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us Ploughshares

Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel Ploughshares

Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet Ploughshares

Emily Nemens’s The Cactus League Harvard Review

Bohumil Hrabal’s All My Cats Ploughshares

Ben Lerner's The Topeka School Porter House Review

“Look What You’ve Done: Recontextualizing Drake’s Take Care" Porter House Review

“Jenny Odell Discusses the Nature of Doing Nothing” Porter House Review