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Reviews

2020

Los Angeles Review of Books

Unlearning a White American Dream
On Meredith Talusan’s “Fairest”

Los Angeles Review of Books

The Queer Time of
Paul Lisicky’s Provincetown

2019

Hyperallergic

A Forgotten Precursor of Genderqueer Performance Art

Hyperallergic

Jack Kerouac’s Beat Paintings

Los Angeles Reviews of Books

Hidden in Plain Sight: A Forgotten Queer Brooklyn

2018

Los Angeles Reviews of Books

The Limits of Language in a Surrealist Age
Sabrina Orah Mark’s “Wild Milk”

Hyperallergic

The Inner Life of David Wojnarowicz Through His Words

Hyperallergic

Open Doors and Wounds in David Sedaris’s Calypso

Hyperallergic

Photography in Search of the Real

Hyperallergic

The Art Object as Institutional Critique

BOMB Magazine

Object Possibilities: Stories of Almost Everyone

BOMB Magazine

Lynne Tillman’s Men and Apparitions

Hyperallergic

The Impossible Beauty of New York’s 1980s Ballroom Scene

Los Angeles Reviews of Books

The Folly of Fighting Fate in “All the Names They Used for God”

Hyperallergic

The Politics of Sound in a Prison

Hyperallergic

Making Art from Global Trade Routes

Paper Magazine

Nobuyoshi Araki's Erotic Power Dynamics

BOMB Magazine

An Anxiety of Influence
On Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s Call Me Zebra

Los Angeles Reviews of Books

The Language of Bees
On Colin Winnette’s “The Job of the Wasp”

Hyperallergic

A Modern Poet’s Timeless Word Bank

Los Angeles Reviews of Books

To and from the Linguistic Shore of Ismail Kadare’s “A Girl in Exile”

2017

The Brooklyn Rail

Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985

Hyperallergic

The Frozen Gestures of Lynda Benglis

OUT Magazine

Queer Chicanx Artists Find a Home in L.A.'s Axis Mundo Exhibition

BOMB Magazine

French Artist Vincent Sardon Puts His Stamp on French Culture

Hyperallergic

Toward an Invisible Architecture

Los Angeles Reviews of Books
Gender-Bending the Body
On Andrea Lawlor’s “Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl”

Hyperallergic

Revolutionizing the Erotics of Writing

Los Angeles Reviews of Books

The Reader as First Interpreter
On Cristina García’s “Here in Berlin”

Hyperallergic

Capturing Fragments of Identity

Hyperallergic

Michel Houellebecq’s Cynicism Persists in His Photographs

OUT Magazine

Voice = Survival Features Art Addressing the AIDS Epidemic

NewNowNext

How Gertrude Stein And Truman Capote Became “SoFamous And So Gay” (PDF available upon request)

Hyperallergic

Homage to Josef Albers: Writers Pay Tribute to a Pioneer of Abstraction

BOMB Magazine

Mónica de la Torre's The Happy End / All Welcome

2016

Lambda Literary

‘Tom House: Tom of Finland in Los Angeles’ Edited by Michael Reynolds

Lambda Literary

‘From Up River and for One Night Only’ by Brett Josef Grubisic

Lambda Literary

‘Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to the Oldies on TV’ by Boyd McDonald