Published Writing

On this page you can find pretty much absolutely everything I've ever written for other publications.
If you want me to write for you, feel free to reach out at deborahkrieger20@gmail.com.

• "'Del Cielo' at Rose Gallery." November 15, 2023.
• "Soumya Netrabile at Anat Ebgi." October 18, 2023.
• "Mary Brøgger: RoseGallery." March/April 2022, in print. Also available online.
• "The Art Houses of Naoshima Island." March/April 2020, in print. Also available online.
• "Rachel Deane at Automat Collective, Philadelphia." November/December 2018, in print. Also available online.
• "David Hartt at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia." May/June 2018, in print. Also available online.
• "Ahrong Kim at The Clay Studio, Philadelphia." November/December 2017, in print. Also available online.

• "A Look Into The Future: Four Pivotal Queer Artists Discuss Their Most Powerful Work." June 25, 2020.

• "Halsey Gets Vulnerable, Explores Motherhood And Childbirth On Provocative 4th Album, If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power: BUST Review." September 16, 2021.
• "Jenny Slate's Film "The Sunlit Night" Is An Earnest And Honest Attempt At Translating Creative Thinking Onto The Screen: Review." June 25, 2021.
• "On “Manic,” Halsey Captures The Highs And Lows Of Young Adulthood." January 24, 2020.
• "Rosabel Rosalind Kurth-Sofer Is Fighting Jewish Stereotypes With Art." December 13, 2019.
• "“Pause” Gets To The Heart Of A Loveless Marriage." September 27, 2019.
• "“The Art Of Self-Defense” Wants You To Think About Toxic Masculinity." August 15, 2019.
• "“Red Joan” Fails To Capture The Nuance Of Melita Norwood’s Life." June 28, 2019.
• "“The Hustle” Composer Anne Dudley On Her Creative Process And Storytelling Through Music: BUST Interview." May 31, 2019.
• "Mary Kay Place Breathes Life Into "Diane"." May 9, 2019.
• "Grief, Aliens, And The Apocalypse Converge In “Starfish”." April 19, 2019.
• ""Nancy" Is A Haunting Take On A Scammer Story." February 11, 2019.
• ""The New Romantic": Jessica Barden Shines Despite A Slight Script." January 3, 2019.
• "'The American Meme' Is Most Disturbing Movie Of The Year." December 13, 2018.
• "'Brand New Old Love' Is An Honest Dramedy About The Pressures Of Adulthood." November 15, 2018.
• "'Analee, In Real Life' Author Janelle Milanes On Writing High School Romance In 2018 And The Rise Of The Fake Dating Genre." November 7, 2018.
• "'Paper Year' Shows A Married Couple's Troubled First Year." October 10, 2018.
• "'To All The Boys I've Loved Before' Is Netflix's Best Rom-Com Yet." August 21, 2018.
• "'Zoe' is an Endlessly Circular Mope-Fest." July 24, 2018.
• "'Hearts Beat Loud' Is Gentle, Heartfelt Fun." June 27, 2018.
• "'RBG's' Film Editor On How The All-Women Crew Told Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Story." May 30, 2018.
• "'Seeing Allred' Celebrates Feminist Lawyer Gloria Allred's Controversial Career." May 1, 2018.
• "'My Happy Family' Celebrates Women Living For Themselves: BUST Review." February 15, 2018.
• "In 'Maya Dardel,' Lena Olin Plays A Woman Trying To Succeed In A Man's World: Review." January 4, 2018.
• "'The Florida Project' is a Beautiful, Rough Portrait of Childhood: BUST Review." November 7, 2017.
• "'Professor Marston And The Wonder Women' Is A Traditional Romantic Dramedy—With Polyamory: Review." October 20, 2017.
• "Teen Girls Take On Sexism In Sophie Strauss' 'Quiz In A Magazine' Video: Interview With Animator Becca Schuchat." October 16, 2017.
• "John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson And Modernist Architecture Make "Columbus" Stand Out: BUST Review." September 20, 2017.
• "'Almost Adults' Is A Women-Made Comedy About Coming Out: BUST Review." September 12, 2017.
• "Troian Bellisario's 'Feed' Is A Psychological Thriller Exploring Grief And Eating Disorders: Review." August 30, 2017.
• "'This Beautiful Fantastic' Does A Messy Dance With The Manic Pixie Dream Girl." August 10, 2017.
• "'Carrie Pilby' Deserved More Than A Limited Release: BUST Review." June 8, 2017.
• "'Tramps' Is A Charmingly Lighthearted Rom Com: BUST Review." May 25, 2017.
• "'The Most Hated Woman In America' Is An Incredible Waste Of Talent: BUST Review." May 4, 2017.
• "Melanie Lynskey Is Captivating And Full Of Rage In 'I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore': BUST Review." April 24, 2017.
• "In 'Jackie,' Natalie Portman Shows The Humanity Behind An Icon: BUST Review." February 22, 2017.
• "'Little Sister' Tells the Story of a Goth-Turned-Nun: BUST Review." February 2, 2017.
• "'Other People' Redefines the 'Cancer Movie': BUST Review." January 4, 2017.
• "'Divines' Lets Teenage Girls Be Flawed: BUST Review." December 7, 2016.
• "Arrival's Political Message is Stunningly Prescient: BUST Review." November 11, 2016.
• "'The Girl In The Book' Uncovers The Way Older Men Prey On Teenage Girls: BUST Interview." September 22, 2016.

• "Taylor Swift Has Written the Best Music of Her Career with 'evermore' and 'folklore'." December 15, 2020.
• "On Bruce Springsteen's Music in Film and TV." September 16, 2020.
• "Nightwish Go in a Folk Direction on Their Double LP 'Human. :||: Nature.'." May 19, 2020.
• "Taylor Swift's 'Lover' Finds Her at Peak Creativity in a State of Romantic Bliss." September 3, 2019.
• "'The Psychology of Time Travel' Is Anything But Simple." July 17, 2019.
• "Pick Just One: The Saw Doctors--'Live in Galway'." April 10, 2019.
• "Within Temptation's 'Resist' Needs to Resist Against Something." March 26, 2019.
• "Dream Theater Balances Consistency and Excitement on 'Distance Over Time'." February 25, 2019.
• "'The World Is a Narrow Bridge' is a Metaphysical Pilgrimage for the Social Media Era." February 15, 2019.
• "'The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle' Is a Stellar Mystery Yarn." January 10, 2019.
• "Reading 'Paradise Rot' Will Leave You Feeling Woozy." November 1, 2018.
• "'The Oracle Year' Explores a Different Kind of Superhero." October 2, 2018.
• "Björn Runge's 'The Wife' Is Not Going to Satisfy Women Viewers." October 1, 2018.
• "'The Incendiaries' Twists Memories, Perception, and Truth." September 18, 2018.
• "'I Still Dream' Gives Us Hope for the Tech Apocalypse." August 8, 2018.
• "'Young Jane Young' and the Monicas, the Hillarys, and Other Women Impacted by Sex Scandals." July 9, 2018.
• "So, Why Does Anyone Like David ​Sedaris?" June 7, 2018.
• "Getting Lost in Thought with David Sedaris." June 5, 2018.
• "'The City of Lost Fortunes' and How Writing Goes from the "Goo in a Cocoon" Stage to a Fully-Realized Tale." April 24, 2018.
• "What Kind of Art Will Hold a Viewer's Attention? 'My Art'." March 27, 2018.
• "'How to Stop Time' Is Thoughtful but Thin." March 5, 2018.
• "Paul Goldberg's 'The Château' Is a Farcical Familial Fable for the Trump Era." February 2, 2018.
• "'The Last Mrs. Parrish' Nods to and Subverts the Classics with Aplomb." November 29, 2017.
• "'The Weight of Ink' Is a Shining Example of Historical Fiction’s Best Qualities." October 9, 2017.
• "Threads of Humor in the Darkest Places: Gail Honeyman on Her Debut Book About Mental Illness." September 27, 2017.
• "'The Bold Type' Blends Political/Social Issues With Good Female-Centered Action." September 11, 2017.
• "'The Bold Type' Is Fun, But It Could Go Bolder." August 15, 2017.
• "'The Space Between the Stars' Is a Stellar Debut." August 3, 2017.
• "Do You Want to Be Dead or a Monster? An Interview With Jen Goma." July 12, 2017.
• "Will and 'Will" Struggle to Find the Drama in Shakespeare's Origin Story." July 10, 2017.
• "'The Handmaid's Tale' Is Important, Which Means It Has to Do Better." June 16, 2017.
• "Halsey: 'Hopeless Fountain Kingdom'." June 7, 2017.
• "'The Sisters Chase' Gives Us a Protagonist Worth Taking the Journey With." June 2, 2017.
• "Yoshio Aramaki's 'The Sacred Era' Is Anything But a Heavenly Read." June 1, 2017.
• "'Sense8' Season Two Brings It All Back to Family." May 31, 2017.
• "David Sedaris' 'Theft By Finding,' Truth or Elaboration, Matters Not." May 18, 2017.
• "'Riverdale' Gets Good By Embracing its Campy, Gothic Aesthetic." May 15, 2017.
• "'Sense8': 'Who Am I?' Puts Will and Whispers Front and Center." May 9, 2017.
• "'The Handmaid's Tale' Is a Haunting Glimpse Into the Unfathomable." April 14, 2017.
• "Paul Madonna's 'On to the Next Dream' Sketches Out a Rapidly Changing San Francisco." April 7, 2017.
• "'Welcome to Night Vale' is a 'Welcome' Introduction to a Strange New World." March 22, 2017.
• "Dream Theater: 'Images, Words and Beyond at the Forum Karlín, Prague'." March 2, 2017.
• "Paul Auster's '4 3 2 1' Has Flashes of Brilliance But Doesn't Transcend Its Genre." February 15, 2017.
• "'Riverdale' Has Yet to Justify Its Continued Existence." January 31, 2017.
• "Free of the Movie's Shadow, "A Series of Unfortunate Events" Makes the Case For More." January 23, 2017.
• "'The Bad Beginning' is Anything But in Netflix's "A Series of Unfortunate Events'." January 16, 2017.
• "The 'Sense 8' Christmas Special Offers Fun, But Not Enough Plot or Character Development." December 28, 2016.
• "Pick Just One: The Wallflowers' (Breach)." December 20, 2016.

• "Kelsey Halliday Johnson leads and advocates for the arts and social justice at SPACE in Portland, ME." January 10, 2022.
• "The visceral impact of scenes of intimacy in “Any distance between us” at the RISD Museum." November 11, 2021.
• "Netflix series ‘This is a Robbery’ about Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist is sluggish, overlong, and fails to deliver a great story." September 10, 2021.
• "Larissa Fassler’s cartography at the Currier Museum describes socioeconomic disparities in Manchester." June 10, 2021.
• "On the politics of loitering, a look into ‘Loitering is Delightful’." February 27, 2020.
• "The ‘Emporium of Popular Culture,’ Providence’s vintage Americana time capsule." December 2, 2019.
• "Narrative paintings at Craig Krull Gallery accentuate Los Angeles’s complicated history." August 18, 2019.
• "ABOLITION NOW! at Asian Arts Initiative examines racism and mass incarceration in America." July 28, 2019.
• "Investigating human observation in Mia Rosenthal’s “Earth, sky, past, present” at Gallery Land Collective." June 19, 2019.
• "Chains and flowers evoke beauty and togetherness in 'Recombinants’ at C. R. Ettinger Studio." May 13, 2019.
• "Imagining the end of the city, ‘After Cities’ at Fjord Gallery." April 15, 2019.
• "Patterns of Obsession, mesmerizing two-person exhibit at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens." April 2, 2019.
• "Neighborhoods in conflict and the role of the artist, in Guadalupe Rosales’s solo show at Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery." February 22, 2019.
• "Yoga poses at Grizzly Grizzly, in William Downs’s surreal wall drawing." January 18, 2019.
• "Speculative collages of Saba Taj at Twelve Gates Arts re-imagine the future through a queer, brown perspective." January 3, 2019.
• "Kukuli Velarde wears many faces in The Complicit Eye at Taller Puertorriqueño." November 25, 2018.
• "Ambitious wonderland, Heather Ujiie’s Terra Incognita at Rowan University Art Gallery explores nature, culture, the divine feminine." October 27, 2018.
• "Sculptors probe the impossibility of 'Shelter' at Da Vinci Art Alliance." September 24, 2018.
• "Mourning and Awe in Ursula von Rydingsvard’s 'The Contour of Feeling' at the Fabric Workshop and Museum." August 20, 2018.
• "Best of the Worst, a lively show of rejects, at Practice Gallery." July 19, 2018.
• "The Clay Studio National juried show features diverse approaches to ceramic art." June 24, 2018.
• "Queer forms on display at Grizzly Grizzly's "Two Spiders." May 25, 2018.
• "The past is present in “Victoriana Reimagined” at Germantown’s Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion." April 16, 2018.
• "Layers of narrative in Maria Dumlao’s 'History in RGB' at Vox Populi Gallery." March 16, 2018.

• "The Lives of Objects: On Maira and Alex Kalman’s “Sara Berman’s Closet”." October 2, 2019.
• "Unpacking Murad Osmann’s #FollowMeTo Instagram Travel Series." June 30, 2018.
• "Giant Mezuzahs: The Yiddishkeit of 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'." February 14, 2018.

• "Jewish identity, fan representation, and Yehuda Goldstein in the Potterverse." Volume 28, "The Future of Fandom," September 15, 2018.

• "DVD Review: 'The Girl With All the Gifts'." Volume 12, No. 2 (June 2019): pp. 279-282. In print. [Paywalled.]

• "Arno Rafael Minkkinen’s 50 Year Career Photographing the Body Surreal." February 13, 2020.
• "Channeling Cindy Sherman, Tania Franco Klein Reclaims the Trope of the “Beautiful Tragic Woman”." January 14, 2020.
• "A New Exhibition Elevates Vision-Board Kitsch into Futuristic Prophecy." August 15, 2019.
• "A New Exhibition of Second-Wave Feminist Photography Has Vulvas (and Chewing Gum) On The Mind." June 27, 2019.
• "Claire A. Warden and Arielle Bobb-Willis: Two Photographers' Strikingly Different Approaches to Turmoil." April 25, 2019.
• "Chinn Wang Conceals and Reveals Her Family's Hidden History." March 14, 2019.
• "Zanele Muholi and The Women's Mobile Museum Exhibition Ask: Who is Art For?" February 5, 2019.
• "Negotiating History: Sally Mann’s "A Thousand Crossings" Exhibition and the Question of Photographic Privilege." January 8, 2019.
• "Elina Ruka Photographs the Mystery and Mutability of Water." October 5, 2018.
• "Marcel Duchamp With Shaving Lather on His Head and Other Photographic Portraits of Artists Exhibited at Philadelphia Museum of Art." September 11, 2018.
• "Photography Exhibition Captures the Incongruous Crush of Guantanamo Bay Prisons." August 9, 2018.
• "Becoming a Specter: Daniel W. Coburn's Photographs Present a Shadowy Image of Fear, Longing and Self Preservation." June 21, 2018.
• "Photography Exhibition Shows an Unexpected Relationship Between Landscapes, Sculptures, Air Jordans, and Pinball." January 24, 2018.
• "A View of One's Own: Three Eras of Women Photograph Rome." November 16, 2017.
• "A Massive Mix of Work in Philadelphia Photo Arts Center's 2017 Members' Exhibition." August 29, 2017.
• "Alma Haser Brings a Handcrafted Surrealism to Photography." July 20, 2017.
• "How To Live Together: Videos, Sculptures and Photographs Explore the Complexities of Community in a Changing World." July 6, 2017.
• "Photography Exhibition 'I Dreamed We Were Alive' Combines Eye-Catchers with Head-Scratchers." June 9, 2017.
• "Klaus Pichler's Photographs Find Human Emotion In Cultish Practice." May 30, 2017.

• "[Review:] Antigone." January 6, 2021.
• "[Review:] African Violet." August 18, 2020.
• "[Review:] Cunningham." January 3, 2020.
• "[Review:] Pokémon: Detective Pikachu." July 22, 2019.
• "[Review:] Us, Forever Ago." June 20, 2019.
• "[Review:] The Chaperone." May 1, 2019.
• "Hey, Rewind That! The Man From U.N.C.L.E." April 16, 2019.
• "[Review:] The Invisibles." March 26, 2019.
• "[Review:] Woman at War." March 20, 2019.
• "[Review:] Ruben Brandt, Collector." March 4, 2019.
• "[Review:] A Boy Called Sailboat." January 31, 2019.
• "[Review:] On the Basis of Sex." December 21, 2018.
• "[Review:] Maria By Callas." December 4, 2018.
• "[Review:] Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable." October 29, 2018.
• "[Review:] The Song of Sway Lake." October 17, 2018.
• "[Review:] Colette." October 4, 2018.
• "[Review:] Sierra Burgess is a Loser." September 14, 2018.
• "[Review:] The Bookshop." August 28, 2018.
• "[Review:] A Midsummer Night's Dream." August 4, 2018.
• "[Review:] Custody." July 31, 2018.
• "[Review:] Love, Cecil." July 23, 2018.
• "[Review:] Hotel Artemis." June 21, 2018.

• "How Do You Curate Stonewall At 50?" July 24, 2019.
• "A Whitney Biennial For An Institution And Country In Turmoil." June 4, 2019.
• "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out: David Lebe’s “Long Light”." April 19, 2019.
• "Filthy Dreams’s Velvet Buzzsaw Threeway." Conversation with Emily Colucci and Efrem Zelony-Mindell, February 13, 2019.
• "“Little Ladies: Victorian Fashion Dolls and the Feminine Ideal” Needs More Than Just Beautiful Objects." February 4, 2019.
• "Follow Me: The Teenage Wasteland Of Instagram In 'Social Animals'." January 19, 2019.

• "How the Wedding Cake House, a Feminist Architectural Project, is Bigger on the Inside." September 22, 2020.
• "A Photography Display Infused with the Scent of Flowers." January 11, 2018.
• "From Henry Clay Frick to Gilded Matzah, Observing the World in Glass Cases." November 19, 2015.
• "Securing a Place in History for a Forgotten Female Painter." May 20, 2014.
• “A Visual History of Federal Art Spending in the United States.” March 17, 2014.

• "Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence." January 1, 2020.
• "Donna Huanca: Obsidian Ladder." September 26, 2019.
• "Lydia Rosenberg: The Complete Subject." May 16, 2019.
• "Sarah McEneaney: Callowhill." April 11, 2019.
• "Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen." March 13, 2019.
• "Suzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls." January 30, 2019.
• "Camille Henrot: If Wishes Were Horses." May 18, 2017.

• "What to Do When a Nazi Runs for President." December 24, 2018.
• "Inglourious Bubbe." December 5, 2017.

 

• "Spotlight: Mel Bochner's 'Glacier.'" June 25, 2020.
• "Spotlight: Dieter Roth’s 'Banana'." February 3, 2020.
• "Spotlight: Sue Coe's 'Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die'." November 14, 2019.
• "Spotlight: Llyn Foulkes' 'To Paul'." October 10, 2019.

• "Rebecca Warren: Large Concretised Monument to the Twentieth Century, 2007."
• "Dave Cole | Memorial Flag (Toy Soldiers)."

• "Stained Glass Stories: Women, Art, and Labor." October 15, 2020.
• "American Jews in the Civil Rights Movement." June 26, 2018.

• "On Line: An In-Depth Essay." March, 2021.

• "'To Build a Home': Providence's Wedding Cake House and its Foremothers." Urban Journal Volume 7 (2021): pp. 24-31.

• "“A worthy thing to do:” Alongside Emily Esten (MA’18) on some paths taken." Interview with Public Humanities alumna Emily Esten. April 15, 2020.

• "Satoshi Fujiwara." Issue 10, Autumn/Winter 2020, pp. 122-127. In print (you can see a PDF pre-publication proof here.)

• "The Queen of Spain [Movie Review]." September 5, 2017.
• "Review: Roland Kollnitz and Hermann Bayer's Chance Acquaintance." July 5, 2017.
• "Review: Yingmei Duan's Thingness." June 19, 2017.
• "Mascots [Movie Review]." June 7, 2017.
• "Mindhorn [Movie Review]." May 29, 2017.

• "Landscapes Get Wonderfully Complicated at NYU's Grey Art Gallery." May 2018.
• "Never Apart is Montreal's Best New Arts Venue" (with Noah Becker). February 2018.
• "At OCMA, It's A Masterful Reinstallation of the Permanent Collection." December 2017.
• "In 'Lazarus Taxa,' Caitlin McCormack Crochets the Beautiful Macabre." December 2017.
• "'The Square' Satirizes and Condemns the Art World, and Us." November 2017.
• "'Loving' and Losing Vincent Van Gogh." October 2017.
• "Exploring Flowers, Tolstoy, and The Wifi on Mount Olympus with Lola Rose Thompson." September 2017.
• "'In A New Space,' Brenda Goodman Turns Towards the Light." August 2017.
• "Marisa Merz Takes the Spotlight at Los Angeles' Hammer Museum." July 2017.
• "Artist Pat Riot is Ready to Rumble." July 2017.
• "Krinzinger Projekte's "Artists in Residence" Offers Some Intrigue, But Mostly Feels Unfinished." June 2017.
• "New York Artist Maria Kreyn's Breakout Moment." June 2017.
• "Deborah Krieger on Gabriel Sierra at Secession." April 2017.
• "Franz West: ARTISTCLUB at Vienna's 21er Haus." February 2017.
• "Georgia O'Keeffe at the Kunstforum Wien." January 2017.
• "Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz’s The Art Show at Berlinische Galerie." January 2017.
• "romANTIsch? Unsere technisierte Gesellschaft braucht Romantik! (Romantic? Our technological society needs romance!) at the Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria." December 2016.
• "Am Ende: Architektur Zeitreisen 1959 – 2019 (In the End: Architecture Journeys through Time 1959 – 2019) at the Architekturzentrum Wien." December 2016.
• "Discrete Installations: Anna Jermolaewa at 21er Haus." November 2016.

• "Mazel Tov or Oy Vey? Looking at Jewish-Coding in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them." January 7, 2017.
• "Review: Morgan is a Clichéd 90-Minute Letdown." September 13, 2016.
• "Review: Claire Carré’s Embers Is a Stunning, Intimate Look at a World Without Memory." August 18, 2016.

• "Why Do Remakes Have To Be 'Darker' and 'Grittier'?" July 24, 2017.

• "Whither Rob Reiner? And Whither the Reinerssance?" November 2, 2017.

• "How Should Jewish Feminists Relate to Tarantino?" April 13, 2018.
• "Loved the New Star Wars? Here’s a Jewish, Feminist Angle to Consider." December 27, 2017.

• "An Interview with the Director of The Driver is Red." March 2018, pp. 12-14. In print.

• "‘Rabbit and Robot’ review: Andrew Smith’s novel takes on new meaning in today’s world." October 30, 2020.
• "Book Review: “You Are the Everything” by Karen Rivers." January 7, 2020.
• "Review: The Future Will Be B.S. Free." December 10, 2018.
• "Review: 'The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig' by Don Zolidis." October 2, 2018.
• "Review: 'The Seclusion' by Jacqui Castle." September 4, 2018.
• "Review: 'Brightly Burning' by Alexa Donne." July 3, 2018.
• "'The City of Brass' – a Promising #OwnVoices Debut." November 22, 2017.
• "Book Review: Lisa Maxwell’s 'The Last Magician'." September 4, 2017.
• "Book Review: Alexandra Sirowy's 'First We Were IV.'" August 23, 2017.
• "Underrated, Under-read, Under-loved: Deborah Krieger’s Fave YA Reads." July 17, 2017.

• "Inside and Outside: An Essay on Leslie Friedman's Go Home." Exhibition essay for Leslie Friedman: Go Home, NAPOLEON Gallery, February 2016.

• "How the Market-Frankford Line became home to 50 love letters to Philly." September 21, 2017.
• "Philly is the main stage for jam-packed fall arts season." September 7, 2017.

• "Two Movies To See At The Washington Jewish Film Festival (And On The Fest Circuit)." December 28, 2017.
• "3 Movies To Watch At This Year’s Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival." November 1, 2017.
• "Scarlett Johansson And The Avengers Cast Are Raising Money For Hurricane Maria Relief." October 24, 2017. 
• "New York Police Officers Join Jewish Organizations To Send Hurricane Relief." September 11, 2017.
• "After Slamming White Supremacists, Miss Texas Is Officially The New Miss Congeniality." September 11, 2017.
• "Why Casting Shia LeBeouf As A Raging Tennis Star Was A Brilliant Move." September 11, 2017.
• "Top 5 TV Bar Mitzvah Moments, Inspired By Hulu’s ‘Difficult People’." September 8, 2017.

• "‘Metropolis’ and ‘Ex Machina’: Portrayals of Gender, Technology, and Society." October 27, 2017.
• "Adolescence and Female Friendship in Gurinder Chadha’s ‘Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging’." May 1, 2017.
• "How 'Captain America: Civil War' Crystallizes the Problems with Marvel Movies." December 1, 2016.
• "'Certain Women: Four Women United by Emotional and Under-Recognized Work." November 22, 2016.
• "Directing One’s Own Life (and Sexuality) in ‘Appropriate Behavior’." March 3, 2016.

• "Interview with Musician, Artist, and Polymath Kimaya Diggs." November 6, 2017.
• "Restoring Queer Narratives in Art with Re-gayze." June 14, 2017.
• "Artist Profile: Noah Morrison." December 21, 2016.
• "Artist Profile: Alicia DeWitt." November 4, 2016.
• "Artist Profile: Filmmaker Sarah Moses." September 28, 2016.
• "An Interview with Artist Alex Younger." April 7, 2016.
• "An Interview with Sophie Strauss." March 3, 2016.

• "Swarthmore College: Selected Artworks." 2014-2015. In print. PDF.

• "Tracey Sylvester Harris." August 2016.
• "Doug Shoemaker." July 2016.
• "Maxine Smith." July 2016.
• "James David Thomas." June 2016.

• “Leonardo Da Vinci’s Hercules.” Northwestern Art Review #11: "Constructing Reality," Fall 2014, pp. 31-38. In print.

• "Fandom, Antifandom, and Feedback Loops: How 'Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series' 'Screws the Rules' of Internet Content Creation." May 19, 2017. Edited version of PCA/ACA National Conference paper (see below). Note: as I no longer have access to this website, I am no longer linking it due to its (as of August 2026) misgendering of LittleKuriboh. The PDF below is corrected.

• "INGRAINED, Abby King and Marie Manski." March 29, 2016.
• "Natural Impulses." July 12, 2015.
• "Patrick Coughlin: Tools of Trade." March 19, 2015.
• "Sharka Hyland, "this thing we call a city." February 3, 2015.
• "Experiencing Hybrid Realities with Andrea Packard." December 11, 2014.
• "PAFA Students Select: The Spaces They Inhabit at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts." May 27, 2014.
• "C. Pazia Mannella and Tamsen Wojtanowski: Inside Voices." April 24, 2014.
• "Keith Crowley: Unseen." March 26, 2014.
• “Maria Dumlao, Expanded Earthly World.” February 27, 2014.

• "Fifty Shades of Foul Play." Swarthmore Review #9, March 2015, pp. 25-29. In print. ISSUU.

• "The Lobster and the loneliness of lost humanity." June 17, 2016.
• "A response to Devin Faraci's 'Fandom is Broken' in three parts." June 3, 2016.
• "Dispatches from the Industry: On good stories, good characters, and the state of movie diversity." February 22, 2016.
• "The 5 Best Pop Culture Moments of 2015 (Deborah version)." December 23, 2015.
• "The 5 Worst Pop Culture Moments of 2015 (Deborah version)." December 17, 2015.
• "Let's be honest: Michael Fassbender is great, but 'Steve Jobs' is not." October 16, 2015.
• "Media for the Millennials: Sense8's Grand, Dramatic, Cheesy Success." August 26, 2015.
• "Muslim Superhero BURAAQ Fights Islamophobia." May 6, 2015.
• "Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves." March 10, 2015.
• "Falling for Princess Tutu: One of anime’s best told stories." January 30, 2015.
• "Before WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden there was 1971." January 12, 2015.

(now Create Magazine; online articles are archived links only. The original articles can be read on this site in full here):

• "Wayne Thiebaud and Dana Harel at the Laguna Art Museum." Fresh Paint Magazine #4, July 2014, pp. 4-7. In print.
• "Artist Profile: Samantha Goldstein." May 21, 2014.
• "Artist Profile + Interview: Grace Adler." April 29, 2014.
• "Review: Hatched! Creating Form with Line at the J. Paul Getty Center." April 7, 2014.
• "Modernism at Bryn Mawr: 'Self-Expression' Captures the Spirit of the Century." Fresh Paint Magazine #3, April 2014, pp. 4-5. In print.
• “Artist Profile + Interview: Essi Zimm.” March 14, 2014.
• "Review: 'The Night Wore His Wolf Suit: 50 Years of Wild Things'-Rosenbach Library and Museum, Philadelphia." February 24, 2014.
• “Review: "The Surrealists: Works from the Collection"-Philadelphia Museum of Art.” February 18, 2014.

• "Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, and Deborah Butterfield’s Horses." September 2, 2014.
• "Robert Schultz’s ‘New Drawings’ at Koplin del Rio, Culver City, California." May 28, 2014.
• "Philadelphia Museum of Art Selection of Figure Paintings, 1960 to Present." May 1, 2014.
• "Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Exhibits, ‘In with the New! Recent Gifts on Paper’." March 20, 2014.

• "Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo." June 10, 2014.
• "Interview: Samantha Dylan Mitchell." April 7, 2014.
• “An Abridged Conversation with Serena Perrone.” September 27, 2013.
• “Serena Perrone: Reverie.” September 13, 2013.

• "Interview with Caroline Lathan-Stiefel." March 28, 2014.
• "An Interview with Sam Cusumano." March 19, 2014.
• “ ...‘Giving Form to the Ineffable’: An Interview with William Daley.” January 21, 2014.

• "Thin (Dir: Lauren Greenfield, 2006)." October 10, 2015.

(note: The Daily Gazette and The Swarthmore Phoenix were merged in fall 2018.)

• "Dream Theater's Latest is 'Astonishing'ly Lukewarm." February 10, 2016.
• "Ken Vavrek: Retrospective into Art as a Positive Force in Life." January 25, 2016.
• "Thom Collins ’88 on the Museum Experience." October 28, 2015.
• "Halsey Represents a Bold 'New Americana' of Pop Music with Badlands." September 7, 2015.
• "Nightwish Concert is 'Endlessly' Thrilling." April 22, 2015.
• "Nightwish’s New Album is Top-Shelf with 'Endless' Replay Value." April 2, 2015.
• "Impressions of Life with Ruth Asawa." February 5, 2015.
• "M.C. Escher Exhibit Reveals New Dimensions." December 1, 2014.
• "Julia Bryan-Wilson ’95 on Academia and Art History." September 29, 2014.
• "Best Kept Secret: A Curator Talks about the Laguna Art Museum and Her Career in the Art World." September 8, 2014.
• "An Unexpected Summer Romance: Love at the Art Institute." September 2, 2014.
• "Fan Fiction at Swarthmore: Two Students Share Their Experiences." May 2, 2014. 
• "Last Senior Thesis Exhibitions in List Gallery Close Series with Intimate Other Worlds." May 1, 2014.
• "First Four Senior Thesis Exhibitions in List Gallery Range in Theme and Form." April 24, 2014.
• "Artist Profile: Lisa Patusky ’14 and 'In Formation'." April 10, 2014.
• "Divergent Movie Improves Upon Book." March 31, 2014.
• "Modernism at Bryn Mawr: 'Self-Expression' Captures the Spirit of the Century." March 20, 2014. (also published at Fresh Paint Magazine)
• "Historically Inaccurate and Highly Entertaining: The CW’s Reign." March 5, 2014.
• "Returning to the Wild Rumpus: Maurice Sendak at the Rosenbach Museum and Library." February 25, 2014. (also published at Fresh Paint Magazine)
• "Tales of the South Pacific: Swarthmore’s Sesquicentennial Concert Event." February 14, 2014.
• "The Dark Side of the Mind: Surrealism at the PMA." January 28, 2014. (also published at Fresh Paint Magazine)

• "Philly artist talks ceramics and seduction." January 23, 2014. (also published at the Philadelphia Art Alliance blog)
• "An Innate Compulsion to Create." December 5, 2013.
• "Sculpting Style: Stephanie Carrera ’15." November 14, 2013.
• "'Fearless' athletes’ stories hit it out of the park." November 13, 2013.
• "Peering into the Past: 'Family Portrait' at the PMA." October 10, 2013.
• "An owl’s flight from classical style: Ava Cotlowitz ’15." September 26, 2013.
• "Serena Perrone: uneasy dreamworlds, richly realized." September 19, 2013. (also published at Printeresting)
• "Tri-Co Galleries Open Doors for September." September 5, 2013.
• "Seeking Serenity in a Crowded Place." May 2, 2013.
• "Diamond’s Senior Exhibition Launches Series." April 21, 2013.
• "'Awkward.' Overcomes Teenage Cliches." April 11, 2013.
• "A Compass for Surveyors in Los Angeles." March 28, 2013.
• "Thought-Provoking Ideas at Moore College of Art and Design." March 7, 2013.
• "Bellows and Matisse at The Met." February 21, 2013.
• "A Conversation with J Henry Fair." February 7, 2013.
• "J. Henry Fair Showcases Eco-Fouls at McCabe." January 31, 2013.
• "Tom Uttech at Swarthmore College." January 1, 2013.
• "Haverford Exhibit Asks, What Can A Body Do?" December 6, 2012.
• "Riley Road Rocks Out." November 15, 2012.
• "Band Profile: Riley Road." October 25, 2012.
• "The Wallflowers Leave Listeners 'Glad All Over'." October 4, 2012.
• "Nightwish at the Electric Factory." September 19, 2012.
• "Bernard Chaet’s 'Seascapes' to Open Today in List Gallery." September 5, 2012.

You can also read these pieces on I On the Arts here.

I also occasionally participate in Indiewire's Critics Survey Feature.

• "The Future of Movie Streaming Is an ‘Exhausting’ ‘Beautiful Nightmare’." November 4, 2019.
• "Predicting the Legacy of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — IndieWire Critics Survey." April 22, 2019.
• "The Best Movie Villains of the 21st Century — IndieWire Critics Survey." March 4, 2019. Character: Hans Landa, Inglourious Basterds
• "22 Movies the Critics Got Wrong in 2018 — IndieWire Critics Survey." December 10, 2018. Film: Hotel Artemis.
• "The Most Comforting Movies Ever Made — IndieWire Critics Survey." October 1, 2018. Film: The Man From UNCLE.
• "The Best Biographical Documentaries Ever Made — IndieWire Critics Survey." July 9, 2018. Film: Bombshell: The Hedy Lamar Story.

I've also presented papers at conferences, which you can read below in their original form.

• "Unpacking Murad Osmann's #FollowMeTo Instagram Travel Series," presented at the 41st Annual New Jersey College English Association Conference, March 24, 2018.
• Note: I am no longer sharing this paper due to J.K. Rowling's anti-trans advocacy. I am leaving the reference up for the sake of completeness.
• "Yehuda Goldstein Goes to Hogwarts: Looking at Jewish Fandom Practices," presented at the 2017 Midwest Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference St. Louis, MO, Friday, October 20, 2017.
• "Fandom, Antifandom, and Feedback Loops: How 'Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series' 'Screws the Rules' of Internet Content Creation," presented at the PCA/ACA 2017 National Conference, San Diego, CA, April 14, 2017.
• "Das ist meine Natur: abweichende Weiblichkeit und Sexualität in ausgewährten Filmen der Neuen Sachlichkeit," presented at the Sixth Undergraduate Conference in German Studies, Lafayette College, April 16, 2016. (German only)