CULTURAL COMMENT

A Culture of Lechery - On the Leer and Predation in Fashion and Hollywood, Business of Fashion

Our Little Fantasy Lives - On Instagram, James Bond, and modern day Walter Mittys, The Awl

The Great Escape - The Hazards of the Over-described Self, and Wanting to Get Away, The Awl

The Image Economy - We Could Be Making A Brave New World, And Yet..., Business of Fashion

On Magazines and Celebrity Culture, The Awl

On Our Cult of Competition, Guernica

The United States of Bullies, The New Republic

Of Masters and Men - On LA, Its Gurus, and Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Los Angeles Review of Books

Middle Aged Marauders - On Revenge Movies, New York Times

Hackers on Film - Telling Monsters from Folk Heroes, New York Times

Once More Down the Rabbit Hole - On Oliver Stone's JFK, Los Angeles Review of Books

Models in the Movies, New York Times

Apocalypse, on Film, New York Times

Johnny Depp's Native American Roles, New York Times

Sofia Coppola and The Bling Ring, The New Republic

On Chris Wallace’s Debate Night Debacle (and being confused with the internet’s villain for a day), Mr Porter

CRITICISM

Geoff Dyer Stalks Andrei Tarkovsky in Zona, The Daily Beast

Sons of Chicago; Memoirs by Aleksandar Hemon & Michael Hainey, The Daily Beast

Roughing it with Jonathan Franzen and Farther Away, The Daily Beast

PERSONAL

Off the Grid - On My Football Playing Career, The Paris Review

Time Out - On Concussions, CTE, Depression, and Football, The Paris Review

In My Father's Kitchen, The Paris Review

To Rome, With Pops, Wherever

“I’ll Be Fine,” Our Family’s Recipe for the Perfect Thanksgiving

The Escape Artist, The Paris Review

Schoolyard on Fire - Coming of Age During the LA Riots, The Atlantic

True Blue - On Sam Shepard, Hero Worship, and The Perfect Pair of Jeans, Grailed

Afterlife - On Biggie, Me, and Self-Mythology, The Paris Review

The Thief's Journal, The Paris Review

A Star Turned - Les Deux Cafes in Los Angeles, The Paris Review

In the Tub, Guernica

LIVING

Returning to Vietnam 15 years after I moved there, Travel + Leisure

In search of time in Babylon, Baghdad, and Samarra, Iraq, Neptune Papers

Going the full Poirot onboard the Hiram Bingham and Andean Explorer in Peru, Departures

In Search of Hidden Hawaii, How to Spend It, Financial Times

Hot springs and health spas in Northern New Mexico, How to Spend It, Financial Times

The Other Side of Paradise; On the complicated cultural perception of French Polynesia, Departures

A brush with mortality on the edge of the Masai Mara, Departures

Visiting the Roman ruins and the Hotel Palmyra in Baalbek, Lebanon, Cabana Magazine

On the Existential Crisis of Cooking for One, Esquire

Literary Excursions - Learning to Travel, New York Times

Eternity Itself - Instagramming Venice, The Awl

Consumed by Appetite - On Our Diets, Media and Otherwise, The Awl

In Pursuit of the Perfect Body, and everything else, Mr Porter

Apartment Hunting in New York City, Mr Porter

PROFILES - INTERVIEWS

Umberto Eco

Noam Chomsky

Jim Harrison (podcast)

Kylie Jenner

Rick Owens

Alan Moore (podcast)

Viggo Mortensen (podcast)

Peter Beard

Seymour Hersh (podcast)

Adam Phillips (podcast)

Oliver Stone

Chelsea Manning

Sam Shepard (podcast)

Michèle Lamy

Father John Misty

Kevin Systrom of Instagram

Paul Thomas Anderson (podcast)

James Ellroy