Selected Works

Podcasts

• Backstreet Boys vs. *NSYNC (Pop Pantheon)

• Mariah Carey Part 2 (Pop Pantheon)

• 1959 in movies (A Very Good Year)

• We debate the greatest soundtracks of all time (PCHH)

• ‘Boyz ’N the Hood’ (Blank Check)

Criticism

• ‘Industry’ got pulpier, nastier, and better in Season 3 (NPR)

• ‘The Substance’ is imaginary, but feminine self-hatred is real in this body horror (NPR)

• In pursuit of radical honesty, ‘Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show’ delivers ambiguity (NPR)

• Every era has its own ‘American Fiction,’ but is there anything new to say? (NPR)

• ‘You talkin’ to me?’ How Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ gets in your head (NPR)

• ‘Hollywood Shuffle’: Against type (Criterion Collection)

• A brief guide to 21st century blackface (The New York Times)

• The cultural canon is better than ever (The New York Times)

Longform Audio & Essays

• The New Black Film Canon (Slate + NPR)

• Screening Ourselves: ‘The Godfather’ and the limits of representation (NPR)

• Screening Ourselves: Queer villains, erotic noir, 90s pulp. ‘Basic Instinct’ and the backlash, rewound (NPR)

• Screening Ourselves: Revisiting the ‘Color Purple’ wars (NPR)

• At Dolly Parton's Civil War-themed dinner theater, there's violence on many sides (Slate)

• The making of an American Girl (Slate)

Interviews and Profiles

• The Exonerated Five: ‘We were just baby boys’ (The New York Times)

• Jerrod Carmichael is ready to get personal (to a degree) (The New York Times)

• Better days for ‘Better Things’ with the women in charge (The New York Times)

• Kerry Washington has something to fear (The New York Times)

• Greta Gerwig on ‘Lady Bird’ (Slate)

Video Essays