Lindsay Zoladz is a freelance critic, reporter, and essayist living in Brooklyn, New York. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and other publications. She was previously a staff writer at The Ringer and before that the pop music critic at New York magazine, where her work earned her the National Society of Magazine Editors’ ASME Next Award for Journalists Under 30.
Her writing—about music, film, feminism, technology, and generational identities, among other things—has been published by outlets including the New York Times Magazine, NPR, The Cut, Pitchfork, Bookforum, The Believer, Film Comment, Slate, and Bitch. She volunteers with the mentoring non-profit Girls Write Now and has been invited to speak to journalism classes at Columbia University, New York University, and her alma mater, American University.
recent pieces
50 Reasons to Love Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” (New York Times)
Olivia Rodrigo Is a Lowercase Girl With Caps-Lock Feelings (NPR)
Fiona Apple’s “Tidal” Promised Me the Unknown (NPR)
Even Billy Joel Mocked “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” I Loved It (New York Times)
Lindsey Buckingham Has Survived It All (New York Times)
Pitchfork Sunday Review: Flying Burrito Brothers’ Gilded Palace of Sin
Marianne Faithfull Is Still Here (New York Times)
Taylor Swift and the Wisdom of Youth (New York Times)
Movies Seen Alone in New York City, Reviewed (The Cut)