Selected Publications
Goodbye to Berlin: Review of Max Raabe and Palast Orchester.
Parterre Box | April 2024
How Solarpunk Fiction Defies Dystopian Doomerism
Current Affairs | March 2024
Itamar Moses’s The Ally Is an Exercise in Liberal Ambivalence
Jacobin | March 2024
Tenor SeokJong Baek Opens Up About His Tenor Transformation and the Pursuit of Success
Observer | March 2024
Diplomatic Immunity: Review of Émigré by Mark Campbell and Aaron Zigman
Parterre Box | March 2024
Review: Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko’s ‘Chornobyldorf’ Burns Bright at the Prototype Festival‘
Observer | January 2024
Adrift: A Medieval Wayward Folly’ Review: Demons, Dulcimers, and Dancing Strawberries
Observer | December 2023
A New Album of Old Labor Songs Revives a Forgotten Era of Class Struggle
Jacobin| November 2023
A Musical Rendition of ‘The Tempest’ Marks the End of an Era at the Delacorte
Observer | September 2023
Star Tenor Lawrence Brownlee Ends His 2023 Season With ‘Singspiel’ and Solidarity
Observer | June 2023
Rauw en kwetsbaar [Raw and Vulnerable (in Dutch)]
Muziekgebouw | March 2023
Review: David Graeber Argues that the Enlightenment Was Heavily Influenced by Pirates
Observer | January 2023
Opera and Apocalypse: Imagining the World After Humans Have Gone
Observer | January 2023
David Geffen Hall Furthers Lincoln Center’s Uniquely Stunning Architectural History
Observer | September 2022
Michael Cavadias’ Claywoman Performance Returns to New York City
Observer | September 2022
The Institute for Christian Socialism Wants to Bring Left Politics to American Christianity
Jacobin | July 2022
At the Birthplace of the Ballistic Missile, a Concert for Peace
The Forward | June 2022
Observer | June 2022
Alfredo Jaar’s ‘The Temptation to Exist’ at Galerie Lelong Bit Off More Than It Could Chew
Observer | May 2022
Observer | May 2022
Opera’s Tradition of Wealth: Diva Eleonora Buratto Performed at a Decadent $12,000 a Table Gala
Observer | May 2022
Non-Equity ‘Waitress’ Musical Tour Files for Union Recognition
Observer | April 2022
How Creative Writing Programs De-Politicized Fiction
Current Affairs | April 2022
Will a Small Group of Hair and Makeup Stylists Manage to Change the Definition of a Gig Worker?
Observer | April 2022
The ‘Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept’ Is Anything but Quiet
Observer | April 2022
Conducting Phenom Jonathon Heyward Makes His North American Debut Tour
Observer | April 2022
Baritone Lucia Lucas Becomes First Openly Trans Singer to Perform at the Met Opera
Observer | March 2022
Costume Designer Paul Tazewell Talks Building Characters Through Fabric and Color
Observer | March 2022
Soprano Anna Netrebko Ousted From the Met Opera for Putin Support
Observer | March 2022
Musicians Organize Around DMCA Law, Time’s Up for Spotify
Observer | March 2022
Restitution Ceremony at Belgium’s AfricaMuseum Precedes EU-AU Summit
Observer | March 2022
Associate and Resident Directors and Choreographers Unionize with SDC
Observer | February 2022
PRISM Quartet’s Brilliant, Uncanny ‘Mending Wall’ Premieres at Roulette
Observer | February 2022
Staff Strike at California College of the Arts Over Unfair Labor Practices
Observer | February 2022
Workers at the American Museum of Natural History Seek to Unionize with DC 37
Observer | February 2022
Union Busting at Meow Wolf: Workers File Unfair Labor Practice Suit
Observer | February 2022
Performing Arts Workers Testify to Congress: Arts and Culture Are in Peril
Observer | January 2022
Opera Conductor Carlo Rizzi Triumphantly Returns to the Met Opera
Observer | January 2022
Jewish Museum Workers Are Organizing a Union with Local 2110
Observer | January 2022
Mobilization Director of Actors’ Equity, Stefanie Frey, Talks Organizing Theater
Observer | January 2022
Remarks by Broadway League President Enrage Theatre Community
Observer | December 2021
Radicals Go Caroling: The Untold Story of Progressive Choirs
Yes! Magazine | December 2021
No Total Lockdown for Broadway During Omicron Surge
Observer | December 2021
Trapped in Carnegie Hall for “On-Call” Food Breaks, Union Files Against DCINY
Observer | November 2021
MFA Boston Staff Hold One-Day Strike for a Fair Contract
Observer | November 2021
Organizing the Unorganized: the Teamsters Take on Amazon
The Progressive | October 2021
A National Surge of Organizing Shows the Power of Unionizing
The Progressive, October 2021
Organize or Perish: The Unionization of Academic Publishing
The Progressive | September 2021
Stunning Sweep for the UAW: Three More New York City Museums Unionize With Local 2110 Observer | August 2021
Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism — Or Bust
The Bias | August 2021
Actors’ Equity Moves to Diversify Theatre by Opening Access to Membership
Observer | August, 2021
Graduate Student Union, Yes!
The Progressive | August/September Issue, 2021
Khari Turner’s ‘Breathing Water to Air’ Is an Impressive Debut at Ross-Sutton Gallery
Observer | July 2021
2021 Observer Arts Power 50
Observer | June 2021
How NYU’s Grad Student Union Went on Strike—and Won
The Progressive | June 2021
Artist Unions are Organizing in Support of the PRO Act
Observer | May 2021
In Britain, the Left is Resisting a Massive Expansion of Police Powers
Jacobin | May 2021
Dance Dance (Socialist) Revolution
Current Affairs | April 2021
The Met Opera Wants To Reform, But Can It?
Observer | April 2021
The Rosenberg Orphans and the Power of Radical History
Current Affairs | January 2021
Rebuilding the Solidarity Economy During COVID-19
The Progressive | December 2020
After Sweeping Statewide Races, DSA Aims to Put a Socialist Caucus on New York’s City Council
In These Times | December 2020
A Lesson in Safe Logic: On Liberalism, the Arts, and Quarantine
Protean Magazine | October 2020
‘We’re Facing Some Hard Shit’: Performing Artists are Organizing to Weather the Pandemic
The Progressive | September 2020
How Zohran Mamdani’s Rap Career Taught Him to Campaign as a Socialist
The Indypendent | June 2020
Wailing Wall
Maine Review | Fall 2017
John Saternall’s Feast by Lawrence Norfolk
Bookslut | 2012
It Takes a Village to Kill a Tyrant: Review of Jerzy Pilch’s A Thousand Peaceful Cities
The Tottenville Review | 2010
A Bronx Tail: Dining on City Island
Metromix | 2007
Welcome! You’ve Got Sins
Canon Magazine | 2006
Love is Lighter than Air
Canon Magazine | 2005
A Few Words on the Golem Massacre
Eclectica Magazine | 2005