Texts

¶ “Les Enfants Terribles,” on Anne Garréta, The New York Review of Books, May 11, 2023 issue.

¶ “The Mixed Messages of Meret Oppenheim,” Apollo, January 2023 issue.

¶ “Still Hot: Maurice Sendak’s Ageless Imagination,” Artforum, November 2022.

¶ “Where Does the Buck Stop?” on Hernan Diaz, The New York Review of Books, September 22, 2022 issue.

¶ “Both Sides Now,” on Shirley Gorelick, The New York Review of Books, July 2022.

¶ “A Fog and a Chronicle,” on Renee Gladman, Poetry Foundation, July 2022.

¶ “I Needed to Stay Approximate,” on Sarah Manguso, The New York Review of Books, April 21, 2022 issue.

¶ “Samuel R. Delany,” interview, T Magazine, April 24, 2022 issue.

¶ “Faith Ringgold debunks the myth of the American dream,” Apollo, April 2022 issue.

¶ “A Glamorous Patron Saint Links a Writer and Her Grandmother Across the Years,” Oprah Daily, March 2022.

¶ “Rosemary Mayer’s Tethered Histories,” The New York Review of Books, 2021.

¶ “The Fourth Woman,” on Nathalie Léger, The New York Review of Books, August 19, 2021 issue.

¶ “Nearly 70 Years Later, ‘Invisible Man’ Is Still Inspiring Visual Artists,” T Magazine, 2021.

¶ “Magic in the Everyday: The Art of Bea Nettles,” The New York Review of Books, 2021.

¶ “(Anti)(Auto)Biography,” on Niki de Saint Phalle, The Improbable (Siglio Press, 2020).

¶ “A Witch’s Demons,” on Simon Hanselmann, The New York Review of Books, May 14, 2020 issue.

¶ “The Condemned and Consumed,” Peter Saul: Crime and Punishment (New Museum/Phaidon, 2020).

¶ “Mutual Need and Equal Risk: Dodie Bellamy’s Life in the Margins,” Poetry Foundation, 2020.

¶ “Space for Thinking,” The Peanuts Papers: Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the Gang, and the Meaning of Life (Library of America, 2019). Excerpted at The New Yorker.

¶ On Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness by Zanele Muholi, Bookforum, Dec/Jan 2019 issue.

¶ ”Art on a Higher Frequency: Paulina Peavy Attended a Séance and Tuned into the Future,“ Art in America, November 2019 issue.

¶ “Delighting in Ross Gay, One Essay at a Time,” The New York Review of Books, 2019.

¶ “A Universe of One’s Own,” on women in classic science fiction, The New York Review of Books, July 18, 2019 issue.

¶ “Remembering Tin House, a Literary Haven for Brilliant Weirdos,” The New York Times, June 2019.

¶ “Woman with Powers,” on Le pays où tout est permis, or The Country Where Everything Is Permitted by Sophie Podolski, Art in America, June/July 2019 issue.

¶ “Line Dancing: The Irrepressible Art of Saul Steinberg,” Bookforum, Feb/March 2019 issue.

¶ “The Raunchy Brilliance of Julie Doucet,” The New York Review of Books, 2018.

¶ “Suellen Rocca Turns an Inward Eye,” Hyperallergic, 2018.

¶ “The Shape of the Mountain: Etel Adnan,” The Paris Review, issue no. 224 (Spring 2018).

¶ Essay, Mathew Cerletty: Shelf Life (Karma, 2018).

¶ On Pretending Is Lying, by Dominique Goblet, Artforum, October 2017 issue.

¶ “A Parable for the Distance Between Language and Truth,” The New Yorker, 2017.

¶ ”Women Hold Up Half the Sky,“ The Paris Review Daily, 2017.

¶ Essay, Katherine Bernhardt (Canada, 2017).

¶ “The Power and Complexity of Children’s Art: An Interview with Brian Belott,” Hyperallergic, 2017.

¶ On Puke Force, by Brian Chippendale, Artforum, November 2016 issue.

¶ “Lines of Thought: An Interview with Ben Jones,” Hyperallergic, 2016.

¶ Jane Smiley, The Art of Fiction No. 229, The Paris Review, issue no. 214 (Fall 2015).

¶ “Jean Dubuffet: Soul of the Underground,” New York Review of Books, 2015.

¶ “Transfigured: An Interview with Karl Wirsum,” Hyperallergic, 2015.

¶ “An Endless Succession of Roles: Joan Brown’s Self-Portraits,” Hyperallergic, 2015.

¶ “Invisible Adventure: Watching a Film About Claude Cahun,” The Paris Review Daily, 2015.

¶ “Making Muses: Dorothy Iannone’s Erotic Art,” Hyperallergic, 2014.

¶ “Funk,” What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design and D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2014).

¶ “Gary Panter,” What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design and D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2014).

¶ “Eye Contact: An Interview with Gladys Nilsson,” The Paris Review Daily, 2019.

¶ “Real Dogs in Space: Raymond Pettibon,” The Paris Review, issue no. 209 (Summer 2014).

¶ “On Ephemera,” The Paris Review Daily, 2014.

¶ On Bough Down, by Karen Green, Boston Review, 2014.

¶ “Francesca Woodman: Fugitive Photographs,” The Paris Review, issue no. 208 (Spring 2014).

¶ “Jess: Paste-Ups,” The Paris Review, issue no. 202 (Fall 2013).

¶ Introduction, Ben Jones: Men’s Group, The Video (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles/Picturebox, 2013).

¶ “James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook talk about 7 Miles a Second,” Artforum (2013) and “‘This Brighter Path’: An Interview with James Romberger & Marguerite Van Cook,” The Comics Journal (2013).

¶ “Life on Mars: Gary Panter’s Dal Tokyo,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 2013.

¶ “‘I Felt Like I Didn’t Have a Baby But At Least I’d Have a Book’: A Diane Noomin Interview,” The Comics Journal (2012).

¶ “God’s Oasis,” Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters, 1973–1977 (Picturebox, 2011).

¶ “‘The Mind of a Worldly Man Is Like a Fly’: A Jim Woodring Interview,” The Comics Journal (2011).

¶ “W. Eugene Smith and the Jazz Loft,” Aperture (Summer 2010).

¶ “At Work: Lynda Barry on Picture This,” The Paris Review Daily (2010).

¶ “Talking To Justine Kurland,” Vice (2010).

¶ “An Interview with Daniel Clowes,” The Believer, issue no. 71 (2010).

¶ “Hammer Projects: Angela Dufresne,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2006. Also published in Hammer Projects: 1999–2009 (Hammer Museum, 2009).

¶ “Ben Jones,” Artforum, May 2009 issue.

¶ “When In Roam,“ Nobody’s Home by Dubravka Ugresic, Bookforum, Sept/Oct/Nov 2008 issue.

¶ “Sarah Pickering,” Artforum, March 2008 issue.

¶ “Miranda Lichtenstein,” Artforum, January 2008 issue.

¶ “Living With Lev,” on the photographs and diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy, Literary Review, October 2007 issue.

¶ “An Interview with Adrian Tomine,” The Believer, issue no. 48 (2007).

¶ “Valery Koshlyakov,” Artforum, January 2006 issue.