Selected Writing

The Talented Mr. Louis (The Baffler, 2024)

Imperial Era (The New York Review of Books, 2024)

The Best Parts of Being a Football Fan Are Off the Field (The New York Times Magazine, 2023)

Box Office Ben Has Arrived (New York Magazine, 2023)

Have You Heard About Jessica Pegula? (New York Magazine, 2023)

‘Break Point’ is the Best Way to See the Full Psychodrama of Tennis (The New York Times Magazine, 2023)

On Taylor Swift in Philadelphia (The Paris Review, 2023)

Bunkmates Turned Scam Artists Take Silicon Valley for a Ride (The New York Times Sunday Book Review, 2023)

‘Hit the Line Hard’ (The New York Review of Books, 2023)

New Memoirs Expose Three Families’ Most Guarded Secrets (The New York Times Sunday Book Review, 2022)

There Will Be No Next Roger Federer (New York Magazine, 2022)

The Future of Men’s Tennis Looks Pretty Damn Bright (New York Magazine, 2022)

Serena’s Last Dance (Gawker, 2022)

For Serena Williams, Style Was Always Part of the Sport (The Wall Street Journal, 2022)

How Do You Prepare for a School Shooting? (The New York Times Magazine, 2022)

Meet Me at the Roadside Shrine to Harry Styles’s Vomit (Gawker, 2022)

The Reign of Reality TV (The Nation, 2022)

The Most Pornographic Grunts in Men’s Tennis (Gawker, 2022)

In ‘Take Me Out,’ It’s All Locker Room Talk (Gawker, 2022)

Sports Betting Has Become So Easy That the Sports Seem Secondary (The New York Times Magazine, 2022)

Nyle DiMarco Dreams of Integrating the Deaf and Hearing Worlds (The New York Times, 2022)

Slime and SpongeBob Can’t Fix the NFL’s Image Problem (The Atlantic, 2022)

Can a Novel Capture the Tensions of Recent Queer History? (The Nation, 2021)

The Girls of Clearview High are Back on the Field (The New York Times Magazine, 2021)

On “Darryl” by Jackie Ess (The Drift, 2021)

The Month New York Woke Up (The New York Times Magazine, 2021)

Don DeLillo, the Super Bowl, and The Fragile Language of the Game (New Yorker, 2021)

On American Sign Language (T Magazine, 2021)

Letter of Recommendation: Lip Reading (The New York Times Magazine, 2020)

On “What Are You Going Through” by Sigrid Nunez (The Drift, 2020)

It's The Year 2120. Master Class Is the Only School Left. (The New York Times Sunday Styles, 2020)

Gay Literature is Out of the Closet (The New York Times Sunday Book Review, 2020)

‘America at Hunger’s Edge’ (The New York Times Magazine, 2020)

‘Deep in the Darkness’ (The New York Times Magazine, 2019)

Jeff Koons Still Feels Like an Outsider (The Guardian, 2018)

Selected interviews (Interview Magazine, 2022-2024)

Sheila Heti (2024)

Michael Shannon (2023)

Todd Haynes (2023)

Alison Roman (2023)

Jinkx Monsoon (2023)