Bob Thompson, The New Yorker, May 2, 2023
Chris Burden, The New Yorker, March 31, 2023
Agnès Godard, Artforum, March 30, 2023
Alexander Nemerov’s The Forest, The Wall Street Journal, February 24, 2023
Cy Twombly, The New Yorker, February 7, 2023
Edward Hopper, The Baffler, November 2, 2022
Walter Tevis, The Nation, May 25, 2022
Dorothea Tanning, Art in America, May 13, 2022
Mark Haber + Emily Hall, The New York Times, May 10, 2022
Movies and Distractions, Astra, April 27, 2022
Neil Simon, The Forward, April 12, 2022
David Mamet, The Forward, April 4, 2022
René Magritte, Boston Review, March 8, 2022
Rochelle Feinstein, Art in America, March 7, 2022
Peter Bogdanovich, The Forward, March 7, 2022
David Graeber, The Hedgehog Review, Spring 2022
The Asphalt Avant-Garde (Highways as Art), Art in America, February 28, 2021
Against the Contemporary American Essay, The Drift, January 31, 2022
Kander and Ebb’s “New York, New York,” The Forward, January 31, 2022
Francis Bacon at the Royal Academy, Air Mail, January 29, 202
Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Forward, January 19, 2022
Alice Trumbull Mason, Art in America, January 7, 2022
John Chamberlain, Art in America, December 31, 2021
Lucille Ball, The Forward, December 18, 2021
Steven Spielberg, The Forward, December 16, 2021
Ben Lerner / Eminem, The Forward, November 23, 2021
John Akomfrah, Art in America, October 21, 2021
The Velvet Underground, The Forward, October 14, 2021
Harold Rosenberg, Art in America, October 11, 2021
Samuel Moyn’s Humane, The Forward, October 5, 2021
Joel Coen’s Macbeth, The Forward, October 4, 2021
Tony Curtis, The Forward, September 25, 2021
Maggie Nelson, Art in America, September 9, 2021
Philip Guston, Air Mail, September 4, 2021
Louise Bourgeois, Art in America, August 26, 2021
S. J. Perelman, The Forward, August 23, 2021
A Mixed Metaphor, 3 Quarks Daily, July 26, 2021
He Screams, She Screams (Tracy Emin / Edvard Munch), Air Mail, July 10, 2021
Through a Monocle, Selectively (Louis Menand’s The Free World), The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2021
Two New Comics Anthologies, Art in America, June 28, 2021
Geoff Dyer on Photography, The Forward, June 15, 2021
Nina Hamnett, Air Mail, May 15, 2021
Aaron Sorkin, The Forward, April 23, 2021
Edward Said, The Forward, April 20, 2021
Eric Fischl at Skarstedt, Art in America, March 22, 2021
Thoughts on Two Oscar Nominees, The Forward, March 15, 2021
George Condo, Art in America, March 10, 2021
“Thinking the Worst of Ourselves” (Evil in Arendt / Milgram / Gansberg), The Hedgehog Review, Spring 2021
Mike Nichols, The Forward, February 26, 2021
“Eyes Like Goya’s,” Art in America, February 24, 2021
“A Tale of Two Catfish” (Lauren Oyler), frieze, February 12, 2021
“Consistently Cool” (Emily Mason), Art in America, February 11, 2021
George Perec, The Forward, February 4, 2021
“Blockbuster Bloat” (Cindy Sherman), Art in America, January 12, 2021
“Send in the Clowns” (Jean Dubuffet), Art in America, January/February 2021
“2020 in Review,” The Forward, December 20, 2020
“Disclaimer,” 3:AM Magazine, December 15, 2020
“Bruegel as Cinema,” Art in America, November/December 2020
Louise Fishman, frieze, December 1, 2020
“Some New Art Books,” The Wall Street Journal, November 19, 2020
“Some Skeptical Thoughts on Hal Foster’s Brutal Aesthetics,” 3 Quarks Daily, November 16, 2020
“Saying No to Don DeLillo,” frieze, November 7, 2020
“Martin Amis: Inside Story,” The Forward, November 2, 2020
“Sol LeWitt: The App,” The Forward, October 19, 2020
“A Brief History of ‘The System,’” 3 Quarks Daily, October 19, 2020
“Victorian London’s Last Illustrator” (Aubrey Beardsley), Air Mail, October 10, 2020
On Frederick Wiseman, City Hall, and City Hall, The Forward, October 9, 2020
On Charlie Kaufman, The Forward, September 14, 2020
“American Greatness” (The Great Gatsby), The Point, August 28, 2020
“On Stanley Kubrick,” The Forward, August 18, 2020
“What Ever Happened to Chicken Fat?” (Contemporary Comedy), 3 Quarks Daily, July 27, 2020
“Dylan, Guston, and Roth at Woodstock,” The Forward, July 16, 2020
“On Morgan Meis and Rubens,” Art in America, July 1, 2020
“On Giorgio Griffa,” Art in America, June 24, 2020
“On Unfinished Art and Catastrophe,” The Forward, June 13, 2020
“Art on Paper,” Art in America, June 10, 2020
“Why Christo Didn’t Matter,” The Forward, June 9, 2020
“Why Mort Drucker Mattered,” The Forward, May 2, 2020
“Jutta Koether at Lévy Gorvy,” Art in America, April 30, 2020
“On Mexican Muralists,” frieze, April 21, 2020
“On Kevin Jerome Everson and Unskilled Labor,” Art in America, April 20, 2020
“On Walter Kempowski’s Marrow and Bone,” The Forward, April 17, 2020
“The Many Peter Sellerses of Peter Sellers,” The Forward, April 1, 2010
“Peter Saul at the New Museum,” Art in America, April 2020
“The Radical Transformation of Madame D’Ora,” The Forward, March 10, 2020
“How Dorothea Lange Invented the American West,” The Forward, March 5, 2020
“David Reed at Gagosian,” Art in America, March 2020
“Rashid Johnson and the Age of Broken Men,” Art in America, March 2020
“Give Him a Pen” (George Him), Air Mail, February 29, 2020
“Neither a Bang Nor a Whimper” (Climate Crisis Parables), Garage, February 23, 2020
“On Oneohxtrix Point Never,” Electronic Beats, February 19, 2020
“Emmet Gowin at Pace,” Art in America, February 2020
“Comic Artist Gary Panter’s Crude Drawings Riff on Punk, Dante, and Monster Movies,” Art in America, February 2020
“Bright Lights, Big City” (James Turrell), Air Mail, January 25, 2020
“On István Szabó’s Mephisto,” The Forward, January 23, 2020
“On Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus and Walter Benjamin,” The Forward, January 22, 2020
“At Fotografiska, Photography Becomes a Form of Virtue Signaling,” Art in America, January 17, 2020
“The Tiki Bar Resurgence of the Trump Era,” The Nation, January 6, 2020
“Mug Shots” (The Irishman), The Point, December 17, 2019
“In a Classic English Comedy, a Sly Parable About Anti-Semitism” (Kind Hearts and Coronets), The Forward, December 11, 2019
“David Lynch’s New Paintings and Sculptures at Sperone Westwater,” Art in America, December 8, 2019
“Has Alex Prager’s Work Become Too Indebted to David Lynch?” Art in America, December 2019
“Old Head, Young Shoulders” (David Bomberg), Air Mail, November 23, 2019
“Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art,” The Forward, November 3, 2019
“Luckily, I Strayed” (Duane Michals), Art in America, November 2019
“Roy DeCarava,” Art in America, November 2019
“Motherless Brooklyn,” The Forward, October 30, 2019
“Fifty Shades of Grey” (Julie Mehretu), Air Mail, October 26, 2019
“The Classical Trouble With Daniel Mendelsohn", The Forward, October 16, 2019
“Gipper Flicks” (J. Hoberman), The New Statesman, September 27-October 3, 2019
“Candidly Choreographed” (David Hockney and A Bigger Splash), Art in America, September 2019
“Apollo’s Muse at the Met,” Art in America, September 2019
“Taking Nothing for Granted” (Nell Blaine), The Wall Street Journal, August 31, 2019
“Prints for the People” (The Grosvenor School), Air Mail, August 10, 2019
“Chantal Akerman’s My Mother Laughs,” The Forward, July 22, 2019
“Spike Lee’s Jews,” The Forward, June 26, 2019
“Delacroix’s Photograph / Some Possible Definitions of Greatness,” Berfrois, June 21, 2019
“Garry Winogrand at the Brooklyn Museum,” The Forward, June 20, 2019
“Harmony Korine at Gagosian,” Art in America, June 2019
“Hampton Fancher’s The Wall Will Tell You,” Cineaste, May 27, 2019
“Theodore Roszak’s The Making of a Counter Culture at Fifty,” The New Statesman, May 14, 2019
“The Astronomical Force and Zen Cool of Leonard Cohen,” The Forward, May 8, 2019
“Christian Petzold’s Serious Music” (Transit and Talking Heads), 3:AM Magazine, May 7, 2019
“Dance of the Spider Woman” (Louise Bourgeois), The Wall Street Journal, May 3, 2019
“R. Crumb at David Zwirner,” Art in America, May 2019
“Gerhard Richter, Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt put on a show,” Apollo, April 26, 2019
“Inkblots on Stone” (The Lascaux caves), Lapham’s Quarterly Online, April 1, 2019
“What The New Left Could Learn From The Old Left” (Michael Walzer), The Forward, April 1, 2019
“Grey Areas” (Robert Mapplethorpe), Apollo, March 2019
“A Final Sweeping” (Irving Sandler), The Wall Street Journal, February 15, 2019
“The New Norton Museum of Art,” Apollo, February 8, 2019
“American Drama: The 56th New York Film Festival,” Senses of Cinema, December 2018
“For An Art Rebel, Martha Rosler Proves Surprisingly Orthodox,” The Forward, December 19, 2018
“Starry Eyed” (Van Gogh on film), TANK, December 3, 2018
“A Star is Birthed” (The Lonely Island), Reverse Shot, November 7, 2018
“Dignity and Divinity in the Portraits of Charles White,” Apollo, November 5, 2018
“Against Immersion” (Virtual Reality), TANK, October 18, 2018
“On Osip Mandelstam’s Journey to Armenia,” The Millions, October 8, 2018
“Reading the Dreams of Robert Crumb,” Apollo, September 27, 2018
“What Invisibility Looks Like” (Trevor Paglen and Terry Winters), Public Books, September 17, 2018
“Eugène Delacroix and the Jews of North Africa,” Tablet, September 13, 2018
“What Have I To Fear?” (Paul Schrader), 3:AM Magazine, September 4, 2018
“Stanley Kubrick's Early Photography,” The Forward, August 29, 2018
“Mandrakes, Dragons, Jews, and Other Monsters of Medieval Times,” The Forward, August 13, 2018
“A Whole New Language” (Tom Kristensen), Asymptote, July 2018
”The Melodramatic, Bloated, Indulgent Brilliance of Luchino Visconti,” The Forward, June 13, 2018
”Useless Machines” (Alexander Calder), 3:AM Magazine, May 29, 2018
“Humanistic Anatomy” (Santiago Ramón y Cajal), The Point, April 3, 2018
”Against Everything: Club 57 at MoMA,” The Quietus, March 29, 2018
“Soderbergh’s ‘Mosaic’: The Future of TV?”, Public Books, February 20, 2018
“Long, Hard Looks” (James Benning), Reverse Shot, January 13, 2018
“The Real Fake News” (Newscaster Cameos on film), The Rumpus, January 4, 2018
“New York Film Festival 2017: Robert Mitchum + Main Slate,” Senses of Cinema, December 2017
“Time Unrefined” (Robert Crumb), Reverse Shot, November 10, 2017
“Of Walls and Wanderings” (Agnès Varda), The Los Angeles Review of Books, November 9, 2017
“Raw Material” (Eka Kurniawan), Asymptote, October 2017
“Mr. P. Goes to Town” (Norman Podhoretz), 3:AM Magazine, September 20, 2017
“Start Spreading the News: Summer of Sam,” Senses of Cinema, September 2017
”Good Time and the Safdie Brothers,” Fandor Keyframe, August 9, 2017
“Song of Herself” (Georgia O'Keeffe), 3:AM Magazine, June 20, 2017
“Outta Order” (Al Pacino), Fandor Keyframe, June 7, 2017
”Two for One” (Terry Gilliam), Reverse Shot, May 23, 2017
”The Parallax View” (Ken Jacobs), Reverse Shot, January 20, 2017
“Surface Pleasures” (Agnès Varda and painting), Reverse Shot, December 14, 2016
“And So It Goes” (Kenneth Lonergan), Reverse Shot, November 17, 2016
”Adaptation: Patricia Highsmith on Film,” Film Comment, November 25, 2015
“Song of India” (Paul Thomas Anderson), Reverse Shot, November 20, 2015
”Best of Enemies” (Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley), Afterimage, November 19, 2015
“The Soderbergh Variations: 2001 Recut,” Film Comment, April 20, 2015