if you are a culture critic, it's rare to have your work be actively obviously useful, but i wrote about writer hanif kureishi suddenly becoming a paraplegic and capturing his changing perspective in his new memoir, SHATTERED, and got a magical comment. defector.com/hanif-kureis...

wrote about sebastian stan, A DIFFERENT MAN, and the power of perspective. defector.com/a-different-...

wrote about SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE and this: defector.com/somebody-som...

its the 30th anniversary of MY SO-CALLED LIFE, so just dropping this here (my first book! wrote it in 2016 @ecwpress.bsky.social): ecwpress.com/products/in-...

i wrote about THE ZONE OF INTEREST and cognitive dissonance and harmony — and, of course, how both are on display now. defector.com/the-zone-of-...

wrote @defector.bsky.social about KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and why martin scorsese was the one to tell this story. defector.com/killers-of-t...