“Syntactical Asylum,” essay commissioned for the monograph Words without Papers on Alberto Lomas (2025). [print only]
Interview of Nicole Treska for BOMB Magazine (July 2024)
“Lish Notes From 2009,” archival notes for Forever Magazine, issue VI: RELICS (March 2024)
“Fellini, Pasolini, Fassbinder, Roehler,” lecture for the exhibition Oskar Roehler: Enfant Terrible at CFA Berlin (March-April, 2023)
“The Utopia/Dystopia Coin Toss,” article for Roca Gallery (March 2023)
“Behind, Before, and Between the Knees,” essay for the exhibition catalog of Cecily Brown: The Spell at CFA Berlin (September 2022)
“What do the hands do when Death arrives?” essay for the exhibition catalog of Cecily Brown’s Triumph of Death at Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, commissioned by Thomas Dane Gallery (Ridinghouse, 2022)
“Creative Consumption,” article for Roca Gallery (December 2021)
“Pre-texto,” lecture commissioned by BilbaoArte for the conference Liminal Writings: Cross Strategies of Language Formation in the Digital Age, curated by Alberto Lomas. (September 2021)
“Knots and Splices: Portmanteaus of Mountain and Sea” / “Nodi e Impiombature: Portmanteau di Mare e Montagna,” text commissioned by the Port Museum of Tricase (September 2020) [live performance]
“Notes on Notes,”/ “Notas sobre Notas,” short text commissioned for the solo show of David Hornback, Shittels, at Aldama Fabre Gallery, Bilbao, Spain (June 2020)
“Becoming Merman,” tribute to Giancarlo DiTrapano for Muumuu House (2001)
“How to Catch a Raccoon,” essay for the photography book Where the Hell is Wichita? by David Hornback (2020) [print only]
“Where Does the Torque Go?” / <<¿A dónde se dirige la torsión?>> text commissioned for the exhibition Allegoría Total at Ermita de San Miguel de Arretxinaga, Markina-Xemein, Spain, (June 2018); curated by Dani Mera
“The Contagious Abortion of Cattle,” speculative nonfiction for EGRESS, Issue 2 (Little Island Press, 2018), republished online by NY Tyrant here.
“The Corner of Baja California and Medellín,” creative nonfiction for Meridian, Issue 40 (Winter, 2018) [print only, pdf available here]
“Do not enter as you always do,” text commissioned for the solo show of artist Ixone Sábada, En este lugar, 138 veces, at Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain (October 2017 – January 2018), republished in Barahúnda, Issue Zero (Winter, 2017) [Versión español aquí]
“Immaterial Girl,” review for Bookforum (March 2016)
“Pockets of Resistance: The Formation and Continuing Aftereffects of China’s Post-Mao Fashion Craze,” essay for The Believer, Vol. 13, No.2 (Summer, 2015) [Versión español publicada en El Malpensante, Edición No. 186 (Junio, 2017)]
“The Autotelic Atticus Lish,” feature for Bookforum (February 2015)
“Story on a String,” literary criticism for The Faster Times (June 2012)
“Laughter and Ululation in Beckett and Moore,” literary rec for Guernica (February 2010)
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