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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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Literary Hub
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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Living in Bowie’s World
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June 7th, 2018
From Baby to Bride
Callie Hitchcock
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Timeline
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From minstrel shows to hip hop, response records transformed American music through irony and wit
Khanya Khondlo Mtshali
Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2015
Slate Publication Logo
April 30th, 2018
I Don’t Date Men Who Yell at Alexa
Rachel Withers
Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2017
The New York Times
April 18th, 2018
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
Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2019
Timeline
March 7th, 2018
The revolution will wear a dashiki
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Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2015
Noisey
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What Ever Happened to Willis Earl Beal?
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The Lifted Brow
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The Anxiety of Freedom: A Review of Zadie’s Smith’s “Feel Free”
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Los Angeles Review of Books
March 1st, 2018
On Arrival, Circular Storytelling, and Not Arriving Anywhere
Amanda Feinman
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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
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Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2017
The Guardian
February 25th, 2018
Björk’s Utopia
Rennie McDougall
Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2017
The New York Times Magazine
February 21st, 2018
Laurie Metcalf Was Hiding in Plain Sight
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Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2005
The Guardian
February 15th, 2018
Black Panther is great. But let’s not treat it as an act of resistance
Khanya Khondlo Mtshali
Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2015
The Point
February 10th, 2018
The Naked Issue: Looking for love in the Ask First era
PJ Grisar
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
Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2017
Catapult
January 2nd, 2018
Emetophobia and Why Purity Culture Won’t Save Us
Kate Shannon Jenkins
Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2017
Slate Publication Logo
December 19th, 2017
Discussing Consent in Gay Spaces Requires Nuance, Not Sex Panic
Rennie McDougall
Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2017
The New Yorker
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The French Origins of “You Will Not Replace Us”
Thomas Chatterton Williams
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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
Parker Carroll
Cultural Reporting and Criticism 2016