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My Friend Ellis

The Paris Review | Feb. 27, 2024

Geoffrey Mak

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Portrait of the Technocrat as a Stanford Man

New England Review | Nonfiction from NER 44.1 (2023)

Shaan Sachdev

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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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April 30th, 2018
I Don’t Date Men Who Yell at Alexa
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The New York Times
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What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week
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The Intercept
March 22nd, 2018
From Belfast to Guantánamo: The Alleged Torture of Northern Ireland’s “Hooded Men”
Summer Eldemire
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Timeline
March 7th, 2018
The revolution will wear a dashiki
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Noisey
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What Ever Happened to Willis Earl Beal?
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The Lifted Brow
March 2nd, 2018
The Anxiety of Freedom: A Review of Zadie’s Smith’s “Feel Free”
Rennie McDougall
Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2017
Los Angeles Review of Books
March 1st, 2018
On Arrival, Circular Storytelling, and Not Arriving Anywhere
Amanda Feinman
Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2018
Real Life
February 26th, 2018
To the Point: Self-help and self-promotion merge in online photos of offline journals
Apoorva Tadepalli
Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2017
The Guardian
February 25th, 2018
Review: Debi Cornwall’s Welcome to Camp America by Zack Hatfield
Zack Hatfield
Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2017
The Guardian
February 25th, 2018
Björk’s Utopia
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February 21st, 2018
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The Guardian
February 15th, 2018
Black Panther is great. But let’s not treat it as an act of resistance
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Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2015
The Point
February 10th, 2018
The Naked Issue: Looking for love in the Ask First era
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Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2017
Electric Literature
February 1st, 2018
It’s Okay to Talk to Me When I’m Trying to Read
Apoorva Tadepalli
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Catapult
January 2nd, 2018
Emetophobia and Why Purity Culture Won’t Save Us
Kate Shannon Jenkins
Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2017
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December 19th, 2017
Discussing Consent in Gay Spaces Requires Nuance, Not Sex Panic
Rennie McDougall
Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2017
The New Yorker
December 4th, 2017
The French Origins of “You Will Not Replace Us”
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The New York Times Magazine
November 21st, 2017
The Culture Caught Up With Spike Lee — Now What?
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Guernica
October 31st, 2017
When Silence is a Plea Bargain: On life as a stutterer
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The New Yorker
October 26th, 2017
The Joy of Not Wearing a Bra
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October 6th, 2017
How Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Whiteness Power
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The New York Times
September 18th, 2017
From Poland to Lithuania: A Writer’s Search for Her Jewish Past
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Real Life
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Seeing Red: The act of looking at Mars has always been vicarious
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Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2017