My writing has appeared online and in print at The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, n+1, The Nation, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Baffler, Slate, Bookforum, Artforum, and other places. (Some pieces aren't available online, including a number of recent ones for the TLS, but I'm happy to provide clips if you email me.) A few selected hits:
”The Cartel, the Journalist, and the Gangland Killings That Rocked the Netherlands,” The Guardian, October 2022
On the El Chapo trial:
“El Chapo: What the Rise and Fall of the Kingpin Reveals About the War on Drugs,” The Guardian, June 2019
“Cartel Cowboy,” Artforum, January 2019
“Border Traffic,” London Review of Books, February 2019
And I went on the BBC World Service to discuss the verdict.
From The London Review of Books
“On Pablo Escobar: Krazy Glue for All Eternity,” June 2020
“At Ukraine’s Museum of Corruption,” November 2019
“Fall of the House of NXIVM,” June 2019
From The Nation:
“Ricardo Piglia’s Act of Recounting'“ February 2020
“Agustín Fernández Mallo's Novel About Everything,” March 2019
“Travel Boycotts Won’t Fix Myanmar,” November 2018
“Overtourism is Driving Europeans Crazy,” September 2018
From the TLS:
“Stand Up” on Sam Lipsyte’s Hark, from the February 12, 2019 issue
"Mash of Civilizations," on Mathias Enard's Compass, from the May 18, 2017 issue
"Life Went On," on Mohsin Hamid, Jason Donald and Viet Thanh Nguyen, from the March 2, 2017 issue
From The Baffler:
“Storified,” September 2018
"Mourning Joe," March 2018
"Colombia's 'Narco-esthetics,'" March 2015
From The New Republic:
"What Did Al Jazeera Do?" June 20, 2017
"Why We Need Stuart Hall's Imaginative Left," May 2017
"The Third Reich's Drug Use," March 6, 2017
From the New York Times Book Review:
"Narrative Adventure," April 2014
"Things Left Unsaid," May 2012
And in n+1, a paean to the Westminster Dog Show.