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For The Hollywood Reporter's #SustainabilityIssue, I wrote about recent films (Evil Does Not Exist, Afire, Banel & Adama) that treat our current climate crisis as a series of fraught encounters between humans and the environment instead of one big catastrophic event hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-r…

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One of my favorite things about criticism (reading it, writing it) is how it can enable coolness and clarity of thought. Began this review feeling surly at state of memoir/the career memoirist's shtick, finished it feeling something else entirely newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

at wimpleton whites are required but your shirt can say chipotle on it!

I reviewed Yasmin Zaher's heady debut, "The Coin," about a chic Palestinian schoolteacher in NYC: nytimes.com/2024/07/11/boo…

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I wrote a book about Simone, to be published next year

Don’t ask why this hvac guy was available on such short notice

Jane Rosenberg's DRAWN TESTIMONY collects 40 years' worth of her sketches in high-profile federal court cases. (Below, Ghislaine Maxwell turns to stare down the artist herself.) nytimes.com/2024/08/16/boo…

The vulnerability of online shopping in the aisle seat

phone autocorrected nymag to nymph: true!

end of august in the office, so quiet you can hear a pin drop, then Joumana Khatib yells "does anybody happen to know if dostoevsky supported the end of the ottoman empire"

Unconvinced

I reviewed the "Flaneuse" and "Art Monsters" author Lauren Elkin's first novel, "Scaffolding," about a Parisian psychoanalyst going through a deliciously hedonistic psychological breakdown of her own nytimes.com/2024/09/17/boo…

Announcing Firstborn by New York Times Book Review editor Lauren Christensen—a love story in remembrance of her daughter Simone, a memoir about our most searing losses and brightest hopes, and how to forge a path forward.⁠ penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752027/f…

On the exquisite stone yard devotional nytimes.com/2025/02/10/boo…

In an excerpt from her debut memoir, "Firstborn," Lauren Christensen must make a choice: continue with a pregnancy that could put her life at risk, or leave the state to terminate on.wsj.com/4kH1fl9

I reviewed FIRSTBORN, the exquisitely crafted & heartrendingly beautiful debut memoir by Lauren Christensen, for Boston Globe Books: penguinpress bostonglobe.com/2025/03/12/art…