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My Friend Ellis

The Paris Review | Feb. 27, 2024

Geoffrey Mak

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New England Review

Portrait of the Technocrat as a Stanford Man

New England Review | Nonfiction from NER 44.1 (2023)

Shaan Sachdev

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The New Yorker

My Unlikely Connection to Steely Dan

The New Yorker | Oct. 12, 2022

Chelsea Leu

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What Was Gay?

Slate | May 12, 2015

J. Bryan Lowder

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The Atlantic
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Not Every Atrocity Is About White Supremacy
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The New York Times
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NBC News
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The Nation
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Unsettling Tensions: Nell Zink’s California
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Fader
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Weyes Blood’s search for the signal in the noise
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Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2020
Artforum
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Vince Aletti: A photography critic’s life in images
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The New York Times
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Brian Eno Reveals the Hidden Purpose of All Art
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The Point
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Monkeypox and Gay Peripeteia
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The Baffler
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Difficult People – The all-too-human novels of Gwendoline Riley
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The Atlantic
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The Best Books for a Broken Heart
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Can the American Mall Survive?
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Los Angeles Times
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In the ’90s, a new breed of rock stars organized for abortion rights. Could that happen today?
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Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2010
Rolling Stone
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He Wrote a Children’s Book About a Magic Wig — and Got Pulled Into a Far Right Culture War
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Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2013
The New York Times
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Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2005
Rolling Stone
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There Are a Million Reasons to Get An Abortion. This Was Mine.
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Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2013
The New Yorker
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The Haunting History of a Huckster’s “Cancer Cure”
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Los Angeles Times
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The New York Times
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A Novel-in-Stories of Queerness and Corruption in Lagos
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Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2020
Mashable
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In the Russia-Ukraine information war, encrypted messaging apps provide opportunity and risk
Rachel Kraus
Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2017
Book Forum
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Mass Culture: Sarah Manguso’s Novel of Northeastern Exposure
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Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2021
The New York Times
January 6th, 2022
Can We Have a Meaningful Life in a Virtual World?
David Marchese
Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2005