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 Selected Essays

A Portrait of the Artist as an Amazon Reviewer, The New Yorker, 2024

Against Rereading, The Paris Review, 2024

A Bullshit Genius: On Walter Isaacson’s Biographical Project, The Drift, 2024

What if We’re All Self-Playing Harps? The Paris Review, 2024

Li Ziqi’s Online Pastoral Poetics, The New Yorker, 2023

Father Figures, HEAT magazine, 2023

Scenes From a Crisis: Selfishness Switches Genders, The Drift, 2022

What Was the TED Talk: Some Thoughts on the “Inspiresting”, The Drift, 2022

A Tightening Knot: ‘On Freedom’ by Maggie Nelson, The Monthly, 2021

The Jewish Ugliness, Protocols, 2020

Out of Africa: How the Legacy of Colonialism Threatens the Future of Genetic Research, Harper’s Magazine, 2020

On the History of the Artificial Wombs, JSTOR Daily, 2019

Unpopular Content: Outsmarting the YouTube Algorithm, The Baffler, 2019

What Does it Mean to be Genetically Jewish? The Guardian, 2019

How the Media Gets AI Alarmingly Wrong, The Guardian, 2018

How 'Self-Driving' Trucks Connected the Australian Outback, The Atlantic, 2017

The Joy and Misery of Cybersex: Two Decades of Online Intimacy, Sydney Review of Books, 2017

Lucky Luke: The Poet Whose Muse is a Dialysis Machine, The Monthly, 2017

Humans Pretending to be Computers Pretending to be Humans, Winner of The Lifted Brow Creative Non-Fiction Prize, 2015

Swipe Right: Stories from Tinder, The Lifted Brow, 2014

Like Dicks in the Night: Why Men Use Omegle to Masturbate, Vice, 2013