Essays & Articles
Makeup Mismatches
Opera America
How Opera Invented the Modern Fan
Literary Hub
An Opera Transfiguration Playlist
VAN Magazine
‘The Chair’ Recaps
The Chronicle of Higher Education Review
On WAGNERISM: The Ecstasy of Knowledge
VAN Magazine
The American Horror of Hooding
The New Republic
Write at the Grocery Store!
Electric Literature
A Night at the Opera
The Believer
The Earth in Sadness
The New York Times,
The Man in the Mirror
LONGREADS
Norma Does Not Lie: On Believing Women
The Paris Review Daily
How Deep Is Your Love? (on operatic fan art)
Lapham’s Quarterly
Otello: opera, identity politics & blacking-up
The Guardian
The Tough Immigrant Tree That Represents New York
The NewYorker.com
“¡Figaro! 90210”: Sing Together As Long As We’re Alive
The Paris Review Daily
“See What Y’all Can Work Out”: The State of Empathy in Charleston
Longreads
Your Global Mansplaining Dictionary
The Establishment
The Beating Heart of the Women’s March
VICE (Noisey)
Queen of the Gods: Margarete Joswig
VAN Magazine
Claire Chase, DENSITY2036: part iv
The Village Voice
Theater 101, on civility, risk, and the demonization of dissent
The Paris Review Daily
A Pound of Cloth: Sweatshop Labor Comes to the Opera
The Village Voice
Let No One Sleep: Puccini, Trump & the best and worst of fans
The Paris Review Daily
Black Pearls Before Swine: Florence Foster Jenkins
The Paris Review Daily
Vote. Sing. Breathe. (The VRA & Philip Glass’s “Appomattox”)
Harper’s
“How do I live? I live.” La bohème, Live at Attica
The Paris Review Daily
Dark Was the Night: on the Voyager Mission
The Paris Review Daily
Otello: I Am Singing About Myself
VAN Magazine
The Migrant Crisis: Imaginary Lines, Fluid Borders
Hyperallergic
Off With His Hood: on the executioner
History Today
Chains Are My Reward: a playlist
VAN Magazine
History in Wax
Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable
Reines de la Nuit: Alexander Chee
L.A. Review of Books
How Madeline Sayet Transforms Shakespeare
Mental_Floss
The History of Chocolate Eggs
Lucky Peach
‘We Feed You, and We’re Dying’: an ag fair in Paris
GOOD
How the Klan Got Its Hood
New Republic
Oh—Tannenbaum…
The Paris Review Daily
In Praise of the DIY Book Party
Lit Hub
Words Could Not Fell Me
The Paris Review Daily
The Uses of Orphans
The New Inquiry
Hostages
Project As[I]Am
The Legacy of Black Americans in Opera
Hyperallergic
Getting Opera Right in 2015
GOOD
Groundswell
Oceanic New York (ed. Steve Mentz, Punctum Books, 2016)
Every Creeping Thing That Creepeth
The New York Times
Memorial (on the Normandy coast)
Berfrois
The Leading Lady v. The Loser
Narratively
Disinter & Reconfigure: Composer Philip Miller
The Mantle
Lessons From a “Local Food” Scam Artist
Narratively
Christoph Schlingensief: Blood, Blackface & the Total Works of Wagner
The Mantle
Philistine, or What Happens When You Break a Sculpture
Hyperallergic
Vicks VapoRub and Me (Object Lessons Series)
The Atlantic
“A filthy process in which I was engaged”: Revising FRANKENSTEIN
Avidly
Breasts: Suffragists, Suffering and Cecily McMillan
New Criticals
Gene Therapy: on cilantro
The Inquisitive Eater
Kieflies
Gastronomica
