On Culture
“Portland and Its Protester-Friendly Downtown” (July 2020)
“Some Quick Math on How the Federal Government Has Spectacularly Failed to Protect Small Businesses” (April 2020)
“Imaginary Metropolis” (Fall 2013)
“Burning Bushes” (Spring 2013)
On Film
Blade Runner Now Watches Us From the Past (Dec 2019)
Nobody’s Hero (On Blow-Up) (April 2018)
Film It Slant: Dutch Angles and Male Vanity in The Third Man (Feb 2016)
She Selected Herself (On Citizenfour, Alphaville, and Fahrenheit 451) (Feb 2015)
The Monster in Your Head: Forbidden Planet Diagnoses the Movies (March 2014)
The Invention of Marienbad: Is Every Art Film Science Fiction? (Feb 2014)
Sex Slaves: Before Space, There was Obsession (On Metropolis and Island of Lost Souls) (Jan 2014)
Melies and the Limits: Taking A Trip to the Moon (Jan 2014)
Imaginary Metropolis (Dec 2013)
Auteur of the Book: Wes Anderson’s Cinema of Readers (Dec 2013)
What Ever Happened to New Hollywood? (Fall 2012)
Lost Racer (On Downhill Racer) (July 2011)
Outer. Space. Psycho. Drama. (On Solaris) (Summer 2010)
Bicycling and Freedom in American Film: Breaking Away (Spring 2010)
Bicycling and Freedom in American Film: The Great Muppet Caper (Summer 2009)
Bicycling and Freedom in American Film: The Ice Storm (Summer 2009)
Prospero’s Pharmacy: Peter Greenaway and the Critics Play Shakespeare’s Mimetic Game (2004)
On Books
Dialectic of Empathy (On Literacy Learning and Civic Engagement by Nicole Mirra) (May 2020)
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s We Were Eight Years in Power (Nov 2017)
Definitely Maybe Science Fiction (On Definitely Maybe by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky) (May 2014)
The Wes Anderson Collection (Dec 2013)
Bad Connections: The Novels of Renata Adler (April 2013)
John Banville’s Ancient Light (March 2013)
Chris Ware’s Box of Forking Paths (Jan 2013)
Patrick DeWitt’s The Sisters Brothers (Fall 2011)
On Art
Garry Winogrand’s America (May 2013)
Lebbeus Woods, Architect of No-Man’s Land (May 2013)
Paper is Light: Durer and Rembrandt at Christopher-Clark (May 2013)
Return to Rothko (Part 2) (Spring 2012)
Notes on the 2012 Whitney Biennial (Spring 2012)
Return to Rothko (Part 1) (Winter 2012)
