An Exhibition Unearths Rare Production Drawings from the Futuristic Neo Tokyo of the Anime Classic ‘Akira’ thisiscolossal.com/2022/06/akira-…

Catie Newell Cuts a Slice of Sky Out of a Michigan Barn thisiscolossal.com/2022/06/catie-…

Tough week. And climate ruling still to come. Double down on the local. Federal system feels categorically broken at the moment.

Mood.

I'll be reading (virtually) from a new story as part of Fine Arts Work Center's Wilder Words series on Thursday, 9/15 at 6pm. Wish we could be in person but this will do! With Leila Chatti, Cleyvis Natera, Erika T. Wurth (she/her) fawc.org/events/wilder_…

The newsstand kiosk from around the globe. thisiscolossal.com/2022/09/trevor…

I'm reading from a new story tonight as part of Fine Arts Work Center's faculty series, with a few other super talented folks. Tune in if you can! fawc.org/events/wilder_…

As Warehouses Multiply, Some Cities Say: Enough nytimes.com/2022/10/10/bus…

.e-flux and the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale asked me to write a short story inspired by the conference theme "Edible; or the Architecture of Metabolism" so I well full carnivore. Hope you enjoy. e-flux.com/architecture/d…

Teaching a virtual writing workshop at Fine Arts Work Center 11/28-12-2. Still a few spots left! This is the only workshop I will be teaching for the remainder of the year. Open to all humans! fawc.org/24-pearl-stree…

Happy New Year! I wrote a short piece about my parents' crazy NYE painting recreation parties back in the roaring '90s. I would often play a donkey or a plant or a severed head. Those were the days. nytimes.com/2022/12/28/sty…

THISTHIS FILMFILM DOESDOES NOTNOT EXISTEXIS nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The Wonders of Street View, a collection of "weird and wonderful" locations on Google Street View. You could lose days to this... neal.fun/wonders-of-str…

My tribute to Paul La Farge. newyorker.com/culture/postsc…

newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Tate Modern’s Viewing Platform Is a Nuisance, Top U.K. Court Says. (A nice denouement to my piece from several years ago: nytimes.com/2017/07/18/tra…) nytimes.com/2023/02/01/art…

In Maine, a Rare Influx of New Residents, and a Housing Crunch nytimes.com/2023/02/03/us/…

The Museum of Broken Relationships in Croatia nytimes.com/2023/02/14/art…

Love this piece of visual journalism on the art of translation. Magnificent. A couple of years ago I was working on a documentary about translators, though I never completed it. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

I'm chatting with the great Dr. Shastri Akella about his brilliant debut THE SEA ELEPHANTS at Harvard Bookstore on Monday, July 24. It's a whirlwind of a book, a queer coming-of-age set in 1990s India, featuring traveling theater troops, love & shame. Come on out! harvard.com/event/shastri_…