“Wisconsin’s Wooden Skyscrapers,”
Belt Magazine, Sept 2024

“Hanging by a Thread”
Majuscule, Aug 2024
Chosen as Damn History daily pick

“Spreadsheet Assassins,”
The Baffler, Apr 2024
Featured in Webcurios weekly roundup

“Dumber Than the Romans,”
New York Review of Architecture, Feb 2024

“Good Bones,”
New York Review of Architecture, Dec 2023

“Big Tech’s Waste ‘Solutions’ Are a Scam,”
The New Republic, Aug 2024
Featured on Chicago WNUR-FM public radio

“Review of Bob Dylan’s New York,”
The Dylan Review, Jul 2023

“Urban Doppelgangers,”
Majuscule, Aug 2022
Notable in 2023 Best American Essays

“After How to, Will Filmmakers Use the Tools of Lyric Essay?”
Literary Hub, Mar 2022

“Spoiling the Last Frontier”
The Baffler, Jan 2022
Notable in 2023 Best American Science & Nature Writing
Extensively discussed in the European Journal of Political Theory

“Late-Stage Fairytales”
The Baffler, Jun 2021

“The Vertical Wasteland”
Majuscule, Feb 2021
Notable in 2022 Best American Essays
Notable in 2023 Best American Science & Nature Writing
Anthologized in 2024 The Majuscule Reader: The First Five Years

“Jo Smail’s Visual Poetry Transforms Loss Into Joy”
Baltimore Magazine, Nov 2020

“Lies, Damned Lies, and Recycling”
The Baffler, Dec 2019

“The Conflict of Our Consumption: Q&A with Tom Haines”
The Smart Set, Oct 2019

“Gamifying the Ocean”
Boston Review, Nov 2017

“The Brain Benefits of Having Buddies”
The Boston Globe Magazine, Mar 2017

“The Mother of Czech Prose: Review of ‘The Bitter Life of Božena Němcová’”
Redivider, Feb 2017

“Can Post-Apocalyptic Art Be a Force for Social Change?”
Pacific Standard, Dec 2016

“Burj Khalifa: Alone at the Top of the World”
Catapult, Aug 2016
Anthologized by Longreads

“Caddying Your Way to the Top”
The Billfold, Aug 2016

“Society is Rigged: Review of ‘How to Set a Fire & Why’”
Los Angeles Review of Books, Jul 2016

“Beyond Digital vs. Print: On How We Consume Media”
The Millions, Jun 2016

“Scratching at the Wall: A Review of ‘Her 37th Year: An Index”
3:AM Magazine, Oct 2015

“Book review: Anomie”
Necessary Fiction, Jul 2015

“The World as Conspiracy Machine: A Review of ‘Glow’”
Electric Literature, Jul 2015

“Social Intelligence Firms Want to Map the World’s Biggest Spenders”
Quartz, Apr 2015

“The Ping to Prayer”
The Atlantic, Feb 2015

“Meet the People (and Robots) Who Pack Your Online Orders”
The Atlantic, Dec 2014

“A Look at Two New Lit Mags From NYC and Brazil”
The Review Review, Nov 2014

“Why You Should Get Paid to be on Facebook”
The Daily Dot, Oct 2014

“How Secret Societies Stay Hidden on the Internet”
The Atlantic, Jul 2014
Featured as “must read” on Re/code wand Digg

"A Glimpse Behind Wall Street's Fratty Facade”
USA Today, Jun 2012