Features & Essays
Lessons of a Forgotten Campus Scandal (Compact)
On Finding the Strangeness in the Mundane, and Vice Versa (LitHub)
Eight Novels Exploring the Crimes of Young Women (CrimeReads)
On Friendship as a Source of Intrigue in Fiction (The Strand)
How the Other Half Goes to College (Jacobin)
How to Be Disciplined About Your Creative Projects (Lifehacker)
Stop blaming the hipsters: Here's how gentrification really happens (Brick Underground)
How did Long Island become so segregated--and what can be done about it? (Brick Underground)
The Irony of STEM Funding (The Atlantic)
Why the Rorschach Test Is So Big in Japan (The Atlantic)
Overrated Tourist Attractions--And Why We Keep Going to Them Anyhow (Jezebel)
The Disappearing Ama: Japan's Tough, Topless, Free-Diving Mermaids (Jezebel)
Opinion
Enough With The Flight Shaming, Already! (The Nation)
Bernie Sanders Could Be the Best Arts President in US History (Jacobin)
Criticism
Against Flash Fiction (The Literarian Gazette)
“Mentions”: The Stand, The Memory Police, The Expanse (The Drift)
Actually, an All-Girls 'Lord of the Flies' Could Be a Good Idea (Electric Literature)
The Trouble With True Detective (Jacobin)
Me and My Shadow (Full Stop)
Under the Skin: David Cronenberg's CONSUMED (Full Stop)
Interviews
Spies Worth Seeking Out: Author Lauren Wilkinson’s Favorite Tales of Intrigue (RESIDE)
Author Kelly Link’s Favorite Short Story Collections (RESIDE)
Tayari Jones' Favorite Summer Reads (RESIDE)
Terry Crews, the Feminist: "Millions Have Died Because of Male Pride" (Dame)
Shelly Oria: Nationality Meets Sexuality Meets Reality (Los Angeles Review of Books)
Personal essays
My mother and grandmother are proof that talking openly about sex is a smart parenting tactic (The Washington Post)
Islanders Like Me (Underwater New York)