Journalism

I'm a full-time critic at large at the New York Times. I write about theater, movies, television and nerd culture. My work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Slate, The Week, Vulture, Polygon, American Theatre, American Poets, Mashable and The New York Amsterdam News, among many others. I was the inaugural New York Times arts critic fellow and the 2020-2021 recipient of Cornell University’s George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.

You can check out a sampling of my work below.

The New York Times Style Magazine August Wilson, American Bard (2020) — The New York Times Style Magazine
August Wilson, American Bard (2020)

The New York Times
”A Strange Loop” Review: A Dazzling Ride on a Mental Merry-Go-Round (2022)

The New York Times
I Saw My Anxiety Reflected in ‘Inside Out 2.’ It Floored Me. (2024)

The New York Times
Black Satire Is Having Its Hollywood Moment, But Something Is Missing (2024)

The New York Times
”Fat Ham” Review: Dismantling Shakespeare to Liberate a Gay Black “Hamlet” (2022)

The New York Times
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Review: Worlds Wide Web (2023)

The New York Times Lost in 2020: Epic Shakespeare, and the Theater That Planned It (2020) — The New York Times
Lost in 2020: Epic Shakespeare, and the Theater That Planned It (2020)

The New York Times The Unintended Racial Horror of ‘Lovecraft Country’ (2020) — The New York Times
The Unintended Racial Horror of ‘Lovecraft Country’ (2020)

Slate The Rich Can’t Hide From a Plague. Just Ask Edgar Allan Poe. (2020) — Slate
The Rich Can’t Hide From a Plague. Just Ask Edgar Allan Poe. (2020)

The New York Times
Anime on Broadway May Be the Perfect Match (2024)

The New York Times
The Antihero’s Last Gasp (2022)

The New Yorker How “Neon Genesis Evangelion” Reimagined Our Relationship to Machines (2019) — The New Yorker
How “Neon Genesis Evangelion” Reimagined Our Relationship to Machines (2019)

The New York Times
”Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” Review: Raccoon Tears and a Final Mixtape (2023)

The New York Times Review: A Bracing Trial by Zoom in “State vs. Natasha Banina” (2020) — The New York Times
Review: A Bracing Trial by Zoom in “State vs. Natasha Banina” (2020)

The New York Times
Disney Comes for Deadpool (2024)

Slate Sorry to Bother You and the New Black Surrealism (2018) — Slate
Sorry to Bother You and the New Black Surrealism (2018)

The Week How The Magicians Dispels the Magic of the Singular Hero (2019) — The Week
How The Magicians Dispels the Magic of the Singular Hero (2019)

The New York Times
How Hayao Miyazaki’s Films Continue to Take Us to the Skies (2023)

The New York Times
”Spirited” Review: A Whole Lot of Humbug (2022)

The New York Times
”The Patient Gloria” Review: A Theatrical Remedy for Toxic Therapy (2022)

American Theatre Black Bodies, White Writers: On the Crushing Homogeneity of Theatre Criticism (2017) — American Theatre
Black Bodies, White Writers: On the Crushing Homogeneity of Theatre Criticism (2017)

The New York Times
Review: ‘The Wiz’ Eases Back to Broadway (2024)

Mashable Why the World of Wakanda Is So Necessary Today (2018) — Mashable
Why the World of Wakanda Is So Necessary Today (2018)

The New Yorker “The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem (2019) — The New Yorker
“The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem (2019)