SELECTED WRITING

CRITICISM

TV

The White Lotus Season 3 Review: A Transportive Follow-Up Stuck in the Shallows” — Slant Magazine, February 2025.

The English Review: A Striking but Jumbled Western Melodrama” — Slant Magazine, November 2022.

Fallout Review: Apocalyptic Absurdity in the West” — Slant Magazine, April 2024.

Like a Dragon: Yakuza Review: A Competent but Sandpapered Video Game Adaptation” — Slant Magazine, October 2024.

Review: Catherine the Great Is an Alluring, If Shallow, Dip Into Russia’s Golden Age” — Slant Magazine, October 2019.

VIDEOGAMES

Another Crab’s Treasure Review: Banjo-Kazooie Meets Miyazaki Hidetaka in Quirky RPG” — Slant Magazine, April 2024.

Nine Sols Review: Red Candle Games’s Resonant and Generous ‘Sekiro’-like” — Slant Magazine, November 2024.

FILM

tick, tick... BOOM!” — The Drift, January 2022.

ETC.

Henry Cavill's gaming PC” — The Drift, Summer 2021.

ESSAYS

The Horror of Mandy’s Many Orgasms” — LA Review of Books, October 2018.

Strange Things, Stranger Danger: Domestic Fantasy in Stranger Things 2” — LA Review of Books, January 2018.

The End?” (on Thor: Ragnarok, God of War, and Norse Mythology) — Public Books, January 2019.

REPORTING

Harvey, Maria, and the Political Aftermath of Natural Disasters” — NYU, October 2017.

Election 2016: Trump’s free media helped keep cost down, but fewer donors provided more of the cash” — OpenSecrets, April 2017.