Long Pieces (chronological):
On Horse Rotorvator by Coil, a Sunday Review published in Pitchfork on June 4, 2023
“How I Learned To Stop Worrying; Or, The Straight Panic Defense,” a contribution to the anthology A Pill for Promiscuity: Gay Sex in an Age of Pharmaceuticals, edited by Jeffrey Escoffier and Andrew Spieldenner, and published on February 10, 2023 by Rutgers University Press. Order the book here.
On Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser, writers who feel jealous of musicians, and returning to my parents’ home in Chicago, published in the Winter 2019 issue of The Point
On Dennis Cooper, Permanent Green Light, and life in an MFA program, published in the Los Angeles Review of Books on October 19, 2018
On the music of Jonathan Richman, published in The Point on July 5, 2018
On Pier Paolo Pasolini’s novels, published in the Los Angeles Review of Books on December 23, 2017
Shorter Reviews (chronological):
On Bill Frisell’s Four, published in Pitchfork on January 4, 2022
On Jeff Parker’s Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy, published in Pitchfork on November 12, 2022
On Oren Ambarchi, published in Artforum on September 27, 2022
On Badge Époque Ensemble’s Clouds of Joy, published in Pitchfork on September 9, 2022
On Diamanda Galás’ Broken Gargoyles, published in Pitchfork on August 29, 2022
On Panda Bear and Sonic Boom’s Reset, published in Pitchfork on August 11, 2022
On Perfume Genius’ Ugly Season, published in Pitchfork on June 16, 2022
On Sam Gendel and Antonia Cytrynowicz’s Live a Little, published in Pitchfork on May 19, 2022
On Gary Indiana’s Fire Season: Selected Essays, 1984-2021, published in Frieze on March 31, 2022
On Claire-Louise Bennett’s Checkout 19, published in the April 2022 issue of the Village Voice
On Gábor Lázár’s Boundary Object, published in Pitchfork on February 24, 2022
On Alejandro Zambra’s novel Chilean Poet, published in the March 2022 issue of the Village Voice
On Leo Nocentelli’s Another Side, published in Pitchfork on November 22, 2021
On Darius Jones’ Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation), published in Pitchfork on November 5, 2021
On Joy Williams’ novel Harrow, published in the October 2021 print issue of the Village Voice
On Alexis Taylor’s Silence, published in Pitchfork on September 20, 2021
On A Place To Bury Strangers’ Hologram EP, published in Pitchfork on July 15, 2021
On SPELLLING’s The Turning Wheel, published in Pitchfork on June 28, 2021
On “Safe/Haven: Gay Life in 1950s Cherry Grove,” an exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, published in the Village Voice on June 15, 2021
On Sonic Boom’s Almost Nothing Is Nearly Enough, published in Pitchfork on April 23, 2021
On The Hold Steady’s Open Door Policy, published in Pitchfork on February 24, 2021
On Patricia Brennan’s Maquishti, published in Pitchfork on January 19, 2021
On Brandee Younger and Dezron Douglas’s Force Majeure, published in Pitchfork on December 7, 2020
On Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain VI, published in Pitchfork on November 4, 2020
On Elvis Costello’s Hey Clockface, published in Pitchfork on November 4, 2020
On the reissue of Lou Reed’s New York, published in Pitchfork on September 26, 2020
On Jim O’Rourke’s Shutting Down Here, published in Pitchfork on August 14, 2020
On Nicolas Jaar’s Telas, published in Pitchfork on July 20, 2020
On James Krivchenia’s A New Found Relaxation, published in Pitchfork on June 29, 2020
On Let it Come Down’s Songs We Sang In Our Dreams, published in Pitchfork on June 12, 2020
On Deerhoof’s Future Teenage Cave Artists, published in Pitchfork on June 2, 2020
On Aksak Maboul’s Figures, published in Pitchfork on May 22, 2020
On Sun Araw’s Rock Sutra, published in Pitchfork on April 11, 2020
On Jeremy Cunningham’s The Weather Up There, published in Pitchfork on March 2, 2020
On Sqürl’s Some Music for Robby Müller, published in Pitchfork on February 6, 2020
On Dopolarians’ Garden Party, published in Pitchfork on January 13, 2020
On Yukio Mishima’s Star, published in the November/December 2019 issue of The Kenyon Review
On Maryse Meijer’s Rag, published in BOMB Magazine on August 1, 2019
On Frederick Wiseman’s Monrovia, Indiana, published in Hyperallergic on October 25, 2018
On Christine Schutt’s Pure Hollywood, published in 3:AM Magazine on April 12, 2018
On Joshua Z. Weinstein’s Menashe, published in a print issue of the Village Voice on July 26, 2017
Personal Stuff:
On the writing of my novella “Sex With Andre,” published in The Puritan’s blog The Town Crier in two parts. Read part one here. Read part two here. (Now known as The Ex-Puritan, spacing and paragraph breaks are currently wonky as the editors update their website ❤ ❤ ❤ )
Hopefully Fun Stuff:
On my dream marijuana pipe, for Paul Jonathan’s substack “Inside, Or Deleted Scenes”
Coming in 2023:
On Meshell Ndegeocello (forthcoming in The Guardian)
On traveling in the Czech Republic and Poland, trends in Holocaust memorials and W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz. Read an article about a fellowship I received that will allow me to research and complete the project. (forthcoming in ????)
Daniel Felsenthal 