Page-to-Screen column at Los Angeles Times

American Fiction (December 2023)

Eileen: Ottessa Moshfegh and Luke Goebel interview (November 2023)

Cat Person (October 2023)

Shortcomings (August 2023)

City on Fire (June 2023)

“Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.”: Judy Blume, James L. Brooks, Kelly Fremon Craig interview (April 2023)

Women Talking: Miriam Toews interview (March 2023)

White Noise (December 2022)

Fleishman Is in Trouble (November 2022)

The Stars at Noon: Claire Denis interview (October 2022)

Three Thousand Years of Longing (August 2022)

Where the Crawdads Sing: Elizabeth Gabler interview (July 2022)

Spiderhead (June 2022)

Happening (May 2022)

The Power of the Dog (March 2022)

Death on the Nile (February 2022)

Adaptations at The Believer

Up Close and Personal (Fall 2021)

The Women (Fall 2021)

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Summer 2021)

Smooth Talk (Spring 2021)

Also from The Believer

Behind the Kodak Moment (February 2021)

Distancing #44: Athena (September 2020)

Agnès Varda: The Beach on the Pavement (September 2019)

From An Atlas of Utopia

The Party of Utopia (Los Angeles Review of Books, May 2019)

No Fences Make the Best Neighbors: Collective Home Ownership, Kibbutz to Cohousing (Los Angeles Review of Books, October 2017)

The Ballad of Thom and Joseles: Communities of the Carnal Heart (The Millions, May 2017)

Beyond the Pineapple Tract: Mapping Utopian Los Angeles (Los Angeles Review of Books, November 2016)

Book Reviews

On Eve Babitz’s I Used to Be Charming and Vanity Fair’s Women on Women (New York Times, October 2019)

The Prodigal Mom: On Glen David Gold’s I Will Be Complete (Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2018)

Father Figures: On Armistead Maupin’s Logical Family (The Millions, March 2018)

Other Selected Essays

Lambeau, Lombardi and Us (The Guardian, September 2020)

Flight Risks: A Cold War Story (Electric Lit, August 2017)

Wishing and Hoping: Card Tricks, Love Spells and Methods of Escape (The Rumpus, August 2016)

Magritte in Koreatown (Los Angeles Review of Books, January 2016)

How Gone Is My Valley? (The Rumpus, November 2015)

The Terror of Colorado Boulevard: Hate, Homicide and a Holiday Tradition (Los Angeles Review of Books, December 2014)

Interviews

Ottessa Moshfegh on adapting her novel “Eileen” (Los Angeles Times, November 2023)

Judy Blume, James L. Brooks and Kelly Fremon Craig on adapting “Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret.” (Los Angeles Times, April 2023)

Miriam Toews on the adaptation of her novel “Women Talking” (Los Angeles Times, March 2023)

“Claire Denis on how she adapted the late Denis Johnson’s ‘Stars at Noon'” (Los Angeles Times, October 2022)

“How a Book-to-Film Pioneer Brought ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ to the Big Screen” (Los Angeles Times, July 2022)

“Paradise before it was paved: finding utopia in LA” (NPR’s Press Play with Madeleine Brand, December 2016)

The Tao of Angelyne: On Temple Grandin, H.G. Wells, and Being “It” (Los Angeles Review of Books, February 2015)