Selected Essays + Reviews

“Rearrangements,” on the “Einstein visa,” The New Yorker (print)

• featured on Longreads Editors’ Picks

• featured in The New York Times’s newsletter, The Morning

• translated into Italian for L’Internazionale (“Orizzontale e trasversale”)

“Why We Turn to Crosswords in Crisis,” on the history of puzzles in wartime, The New York Times (print)

“Good Forms of Collectivity,” on the federal job guarantee and the arts, Los Angeles Review of Books

• presented at the Global Forum for Democratizing Work

“The Crossword Grid’s Geometry of Memory,” on Cameron Granger’s art at the Queens Museum, Hyperallergic

“A Graceful Kind of Non-Absence,” on John Ashbery’s poetry and macroeconomics, Money on the Left

• discussed on the Superstructure podcast

Exhibition Essay, on Hannah Lutz Winkler’s performance Meerschweinbau, Stephen Street Gallery

“Sovereign Bodies of Water,” on the history of open borders, Abolition Democracy at Columbia Law

Dispatch, on being an anti-Zionist Jew during the assault on Gaza, The Drift

Mention, on YouTube comedy, The Drift

Personal essay, on gaming during the pandemic, The New Yorker

“Crossword Politics” interview with Camila Valle, Tempest

“The Fight to Make Crosswords More Inclusive,” The Atlantic

“Bringing Brown to the Black-and-White Grid,” The Juggernaut

“Under Construction,” The Henry Ford Magazine

On how to make a crossword, The New York Times