Selected Essays + Reviews
“Rearrangements,” on crosswords and immigration, 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”)
“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
“Why We Turn to Crosswords in Crisis,” on the history of puzzles in wartime, The New York Times
“A Graceful Kind of Non-Absence,” on John Ashbery’s poetry and macroeconomics, Money on the Left
discussed on the Superstructure podcast
“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