Published Work
Here is a more-or-less complete list of my published articles. You can also see it in list form, and browse by genre (criticism, profile, essay), subject (art, books, tech, history, music), and publication (TNY, NYRB, NYTBR, Harper’s, Cabinet). Separate pages detailing my book contributions, public events, and media appearances are forthcoming.
2025 |
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| Confederate Monuments | TNY | art criticism | 10/24/25 |
| Tim Berners-Lee | TNY | tech profile | 10/2/25 |
| Kerry James Marshall | RA | art profile | 9/1/25 |
| The First Homosexuals | TNY | art criticism | 7/15/25 |
| The Met’s Rockefeller Wing and Restitution | TNY | art criticism | 6/30/25 |
| Jack Whitten Went Hard in the Paint | TNY | art criticism | 5/29/25 |
| Hilton Als’s “The Islander” | TNY | literary criticism | 5/25/25 |
| Lorna Simpson | TNY | art profile | 5/5/25 |
| The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge | TNY | tech feature | 3/14/25 |
| Slave Ship Wrecks | TNY | history feature | 2/24/25 |
2024 |
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| Mati Diop | TNY | film profile | 10/24/24 |
| Danzy Senna | TNY | author profile | 9/3/24 |
| Cole Escola | TNY | theater profile | 8/24/24 |
| An Interview with Lonnie Bunch | TNY | interview | 7/9/24 |
| UNESCO and Intangible Heritage | TNY | feature | 3/2/24 |
| Branden Jacobs-Jenkins | TNY | theater profile | 1/8/24 |
2023 |
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| Teju Cole’s “Tremor” | TNY | book criticism | 10/9/23 |
| Mohamed Mbougarr Sarr | TNY | book criticism | 9/11/23 |
| Maya Binyam’s “Hangman” | TNY | book criticism | 8/8/23 |
| ADG7’s Shamanic K-Folk | TNY | music interview | 7/10/23 |
| Samuel R. Delany | TNY | author profile | 7/3/23 |
| Video Games at the Museum | TNY | art criticism | 6/30/23 |
| Dorothy Ashby | TNY | music criticism | 6/9/23 |
| Giancarlo Esposito | TNY | actor profile | 3/1/23 |
| Samuel Fosso’s Century in Selfies | TNY | art criticism | 1/21/23 |
2022 |
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| Kehinde Wiley | TNY | art profile | 12/26/22 |
| Abdulrazak Gurnah | TNY | book criticism | 10/24/22 |
| Marilyn Nance and FESTAC ’77 | TNY | art criticism | 10/8/22 |
| Sisterhood and Slavery in “The Woman King” | TNY | film criticism | 9/16/22 |
| The Monks Who Took the Kora to Church | TNY | feature | 8/29/22 |
| Africa and the Harlem Renaissance | TNY | art criticism | 8/11/22 |
| Ishmael Reed’s “Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down” | NYRB | book criticism | 5/15/22 |
| Afro-Atlantic Histories | TNY | art criticism | 5/4/22 |
| Yoko Tawada | TNY | book criticism | 4/14/22 |
| An Interview with Angélique Kidjo | TNY | music interview | 2/16/22 |
| Mapping Climate Grief in “Norco” | TNY | video game criticism | 1/20/22 |
2021 |
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| Focus Mode | TNY | tech essay | 12/13/21 |
| Apple TV’s Foundation | TNY | tv criticism | 11/1/21 |
| Percival Everett | TNY | book criticism | 9/20/21 |
| Ishmael Reed | TNY | author profile | 7/19/21 |
| Clint Smith’s “How the World is Passed” | NYTBR | book criticism | 6/1/21 |
| “Reconstructions” at MOMA | Art in America | art criticism | 3/31/21 |
| Octavia Butler | TNY | book criticism | 3/8/21 |
| El Anatsui | TNY | art profile | 1/11/21 |
2020 |
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| An Interview with Scholatique Mukasonga | White Review | author interview | 10/1/20 |
| Hervé Guibert | TNY | book criticism | 9/14/20 |
| New Books (Origo, Nettel, Raffles) | Harper’s | book criticism | 8/1/20 |
| New Books (Ball, Sheldrake, Jong) | Harper’s | book criticism | 6/1/20 |
| New Books (Dorman, Golia, Ferris, Adimi) | Harper’s | book criticism | 4/1/20 |
| Fernanda Melchor’s “Hurricane Season” | NYTBR | book criticism | 3/31/20 |
| Underground Railroad Reenactments | TNY | feature | 2/10/20 |
| New Books (Greenwell, Brown, Condé) | Harper’s | book criticism | 1/1/20 |
2019 |
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| New Books (Anyuru, Secrest, Hendrickson) | Harper’s | book criticism | 12/1/19 |
| Dread Scott’s Rebellion | Vanity Fair | art profile | 10/1/19 |
| New Books (Chu, Robin, Oyamada) | Harper’s | book criticism | 10/1/19 |
| Caleb Crain, Yoko Ogawa, and Digital Surveillance | NYTBR | book criticism | 9/8/19 |
| New Books (Tokarczuk, Watson, Folarin) | Harper’s | book criticism | 8/1/19 |
| New Books (Gates, Eagleton, Flores) | Harper’s | book criticism | 5/1/19 |
| Ian McEwan’s Robot Novel | TNY | book criticism | 4/15/19 |
| Chang and Eng, the “Siamese Twins” | NYRB | book criticism | 2/21/19 |
2018 |
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| Mathias Énard | TNY | book criticism | 11/26/18 |
| Patrick Chamoiseau’s “Slave Old Man” | NYTBR | book criticism | 7/1/18 |
| Gogol’s Fake News | NYTBR | essay | 5/2/18 |
| Scholastique Mukasonga | NYRB | book criticism | 2/22/18 |
2017 |
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| Curse Narratives in Four African Novels | NYTBR | criticism | 9/3/17 |
| John Keene’s “Counternarratives” | NYTBR | criticism | 9/3/17 |
| Teju Cole’s “Blind Spot” | NYRB | criticism | 8/3/17 |
| Dying Forever in a Text-Based Game | Cabinet | essays | 6/1/17 |
| The Enthusiast: Derek Walcott | NYTBR | criticism | 4/24/17 |
| Derek Walcott and Peter Doig | NYRB | criticism | 4/6/17 |
2016 |
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| John Lewis’s “March” | NYTBR | criticism | 11/27/16 |
| The Muses Talk Back | TNR | criticism | 10/20/16 |
| Motoring While Black | Cabinet | essays | 10/1/16 |
| Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad” | NYRB | criticism | 9/29/16 |
| Gift of General Dodds | Cabinet | essay | 2/1/16 |
2015 |
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| Marlon James’s “A Brief History of Seven Killings” | NYRB | criticism | 11/19/15 |
| The Writing of the Heart | Cabinet | essays | 6/1/15 |