Writing
Along with Albert Wu, I write a newsletter, A Broad and Ample Road.
Below you’ll find a selection of other writing.
Scientology: The Mystery Sandwich
On Scientology, Tolstoy, and the highs and lows of religious faith.
On Scientology, Tolstoy, and the highs and lows of religious faith.
Los Angeles Review of Books
Imperfect Strollers: Teju Cole, Ben Lerner, W.G. Sebald, and the Alienated Cosmopolitan
On the twenty-first-century flâneur, dislocated and wayward.
On the twenty-first-century flâneur, dislocated and wayward.
Los Angeles Review of Books
In Hell, “We Shall Be Free”: On “Breaking Bad”
On evil and liberty, with Walter White as Milton's Satan. Selected by LARB as one of its best television pieces.
On evil and liberty, with Walter White as Milton's Satan. Selected by LARB as one of its best television pieces.
Los Angeles Review of Books
Marilynne Robinson and the Miraculous Privilege of Existence
On Robinson's world of quietly radical encounters.
On Robinson's world of quietly radical encounters.
Los Angeles Review of Books
The Lost Student
On leaving behind a student in rural Arkansas.
On leaving behind a student in rural Arkansas.
The New York Times Magazine