very proud to have the brilliant Imani Perry in NYT Magazine again, profiling Jesmyn Ward with incisive sensitivity. not everyday one macarthur grantee writes on another. nytimes.com/2023/10/13/mag…

Very proud of this subtle, moving and thoughtful piece from Han Zhang about the power of telling stories in the face of state repression

Excited to be in conversation with Lydia Kiesling tomorrow night at Books Are Magic, talking about her stunning new novel Mobility

nytimes.com/2023/06/27/mag…

Calligraphy has been a source of private joy for me in the last year and I wrote about it for The New York Times ! So excited to share this 😊 Thank you to the marvelous Ismail Muhammad for working with me!

'The past is never the past of present cliché.' an absolute pleasure to have Brian Dillon in the magazine. nytimes.com/2023/06/13/mag…

For the NYT Magazine's excellent 'Letter of Recommendation' series, I wrote about the pleasures and surprises of reading old magazines cover to cover, masthead to classifieds. The New York Times nytimes.com/2023/06/13/mag…

“What Gadsby did was give the audience permission — moral permission — to turn their backs on what challenged them, and to ennoble a preference for comfort and kitsch.” So good Jason Farago nytimes.com/2023/06/01/art…

can't emphasize enough what a special publication Los Angeles Review of Books is — i'm eternally thankfully that they published this essay

grateful to Laila Lalami for this smart essay on how californian history takes shape

And now for something completely different: happy to make my debut @NYTMag writing about the architectures of memory and my personal practice of drawing…floor plans (+ some rare glimpses of my childhood)🧧nytimes.com/2023/04/25/mag…

''At the end of the day, I’m an abstract artist. But the question I’m proposing is: If you’re pulling from source material that lives in the world, is it ever truly abstract?' Bradford asked in the studio.'

nytimes.com/2023/04/19/mag…

A typically supple and disconcerting (in the best way possible) piece by Alexandra Kleeman on Dead Ringers

95th st elementary school, and other poor, Black and brown communities in Los Angeles, have suffered disproportionately during the pandemic. And they’re still grappling with the health risk of Covid — and the pandemic’s emotional fallout. nytimes.com/2023/04/05/mag…

grateful to Meg Bernhard, who spent nearly a year reporting this story about the lives of people we've mostly chosen to forget in our rush to return to normal.

For NYT Magazine I wrote about the power of saying goodbye.

I rarely write about my family or my personal life but this piece felt important to share. Many thanks to Ismail Muhammad for giving me the chance and for handling this story with so much care.

nytimes.com/2022/09/27/mag…

finally gave shape to some thoughts about representation that've been tumbling around my head for a few years. thanks to @AdrienneNGreen and Sasha Weiss for helping make them legible, and Niela Orr and Namwali for their insights while i was writing it.
nytimes.com/2022/10/13/mag…

nothing good happens when a rapper tells the engineer to cut the drums

also happy to see true star ⁦Niela Orr⁩ in the mag with this typically thoughtful profile of ⁦Michael R. Jackson⁩ nytimes.com/2022/04/29/mag…

this weekend marks the 30th anniversary of the 1992 los angeles riots. really happy to have Myriam Gurba Serrano, Hector Tobar , and Walter Thompson-Hernàndez reflecting on those events – what they were, and what they meant – in NYT Magazine. nytimes.com/interactive/20…