Writing

selected clips
Joni Mitchell: Fear of a Female Genius
Pretty When You Cry
Astral Weeks is 50, But It Never Ages
Heaven Can Wait: On Elaine May
December Boy: On Alex Chilton
Yoko Ono and the Myth That Deserves to Die
Beat Boutique
Drake, Chance the Rapper, and the Millennial Divide
An Ode to the iPod Classic
A Brief, Infinite History of the Saturn Return
How To Be a Woman Alone: The Films of Chantal Akerman
Gratuitous Pictures of Your Grief
Not Every Girl Is a Riot Grrrl
I’m Not a Dad, But I Rock Like One
Sunday Review: Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Illuminations
Is There Anything We Can All Agree On? Yes. Dolly Parton

on music
Leaving Britney Alone
Sufjan Stevens’ Fifty States of Grey
Why Kathleen Edwards Had to Quit Music
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill at 20
The Irregular Beat of Jenny Lewis’s Heart
The Strange, Glorious Gravity of Solange
The Lost Past and Hopeful Future of Mandy Moore
Ariana Grande’s Ode to Joy
The Curious Case of Clairo
The Fairytale Come-Up of Cardi B
Grieving Bowie
The Enduring Power of Stevie Nicks
Your Mind Is Your Might: Fiona Apple’s Oversharing
The Problem with Logic
All the Young Sadboys
Kesha and the End of the Dr. Luke Era
Waxahatchee Walks Into a Hurricane without a Raincoat
Refresh: The Lonely Futurism of TLC’s Fanmail
Maximum Distortion: The Peculiar Case of Jai Paul

on film
Look, Now Look Again: The Cinema of Agnès Varda
God’s Lonely Men: ‘Taxi Driver’ in the Age of Incels
Against He-Men: Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind
How Andrew Bujalski Made a Sophisticated Hooters Comedy
Psycho Biddies, Then and Now
The Last Tango Fiasco
Kristen Stewart Is Still Here
Our Lady of Perpetual Fluster: An Ode to Diane Keaton
The Hourglass and the Egghead: On Marilyn and Arthur

selected profiles
Jane Campion
Amy Heckerling
Melissa Broder
Angel Olsen
Stephen Malkmus
Hatsune Miku

~the way we live now~
Can Millennials Take a Joke?
The Never-Ending Showdown Between Boomers and Millennials
Sex and the Commodification of the Single Girl
On Being a Female Critic
How to Not Not-Write

on feminism
Ridicule is Resistance
Why We Must Resist the Post-#MeToo Comeback Narrative
Harvey Weinstein and the Imaginary Boyfriend
Fear of Music: Pussy Riot Take New York

Ordinary Machines
a column on music, identity, and the banality of technology that ran on Pitchfork from 2012-2014
OM#11: Everything Happens So Much
OM#10: Pretty When You Cry
OM#09: Take Back the Name
OM#08: The #Art of the Hashtag
OM#07: Ghost Riding
OM#06: Our Own Sense of Time
OM#05: Seen Your Video
OM#04: Innocent Civilians
OM#03: Gratuitous Pictures of Your Grief
OM#02: This Must Be Pop
OM#01: Cold Facts

lol sure
Actual Question: Has Drake Ever Had a Girlfriend?
How I Became a Karlie Kloss/Taylor Swift Shipper
A Brief Meditation on the Slash in ‘FutureSex/LoveSounds’
What If Drake Covered Pinkerton?

selected album reviews
Lorde: Melodrama
Frank Ocean: Blonde
Rihanna: Anti
Sleater-Kinney: No Cities to Love
Grimes: Visions
Kanye West: The Life of Pablo
Beach House: Bloom
Neko Case: The Harder I Fight…
Father John Misty: Pure Comedy
Taylor Swift: 1989
The Breeders: Last Splash (reissue)
The Mountain Goats: All Hail West Texas (reissue)
Cat Power: Sun
Lorde: Pure Heroine
Marianne Faithfull: Broken English (reissue)

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