Articles
Film & TV writing
Essay: The films of Lynne Ramsay in four songs | Bright Wall/Dark Room, 2024
Profile: Hoa Xuande appreciates his character's identities in 'The Sympathizer' | Toronto Star, 2024
Review: 'The Curse' is exciting, surreal television | Toronto Star, 2024
Essay: Mushrooms as a source of profound connection in the films of Ben Wheatley | Beneficial Shock, 2023
Guide: A Guide to the most essential Canadian horror films | Toronto Star, 2023
Reported article: Toronto Moviegoers share their plans for Barbenheimer | Toronto Star, 2023
Profile: Chandler Levack on her debut feature 'I Like Movies' | Toronto Star, 2023
Reported essay: Gen Z are watching shows whose heydeys have come and gone | Toronto Star, 2023
Reported essay: Why are we so obsessed with scammers? | The Walrus, 2022
Essay: 'Final Destination' bridges two eras of horror | Hero Collector, 2021
Essay: Did 'Bob's Burgers' predict the current MLB pitching scandal? | Fansided, 2021
Review: Ben Wheatley's 'In the Earth' finds horror in fungi | The Verge, 2021
Personal essay: Why I rewatch 'School of Rock' | Alma, 2020
Reported essay: Non-religious queer storylines still rule the TV roost | Bitch Media, 2020
Essay: 'BoJack Horseman' didn't need jewish characters to tell Jewish stories | Alma, 2020
Film Festival Coverage
TIFF 2023: The dangers of working with your lover, a review of 'Fair Play' | Toronto Star, 2023
TIFF 2023: Three profiles in The New Voices of Canadian Film project | Toronto Star, 2023
Sundance 2023: 'Eileen' is an adequate adaptation that doesn't go far enough | Xtra, 2024
TIFF 2022: 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' is a striking look at the Opioid crisis | Xtra, 2022
TIFF 2022: TIFF's Midnight Madness serves up controversy as well as gore | Little White Lies, 2022
Hot Docs 2022: Review: 'Nelly & Nadine' unearths a love story lost to time | Xtra, 2022
Hot Docs 2022: Review: 'Freedom from Everything' is a puzzling documentary | Xtra, 2022
Hot Docs 2022: Review: 'Anonymous Club' finds Courtney Barnett in flux | Xtra, 2022
Hot Docs 2022: Hot Docs' programme imagines a clean, free, just future | Little White Lies, 2022
Sundance 2022: 'Brainwashed' is a journey through feminist film theory | Bitch Media, 2022
Sundance 2022: Three films show the resilient fight for abortion access | Bitch Media, 2022
Sundance 2021: 'Violation' is a critical addition to the revenge genre | Bitch Media, 2021
Sundance 2021: 5 Women-directed horror films from Sundance | Bitch Media, 2021
(Social) Media articles
Op-ed: It is time to retire the Holocaust comparison | Teen Vogue, 2022
Analysis: The strange allure of true crime makeup YouTube | i-D, 2021
Op-ed: We still don't know how to mourn Jewish celebrities | Bitch Media, 2020
Op-ed: Holocaust Remembrance Day: putting the pandemic in perspective | Toronto Star, 2020
Linguistics & Education writing
Analysis: Hebrew and Yiddish receive their own Wordle versions | JTA, 2022
- Also published in The Forward, Jerusalem Post, Washington Jewish Week
Report: Oxford Schools on Rare Jewish Languages aim to keep heritages alive | JTA, 2022
- Also published in The Forward, Alma, Baltimore Jewish Times
Guide: 10 Online resources to learn Russian | Business Insider, 2020
Report: Pangloss, the archive dedicated to preserving languages | Multilingual Magazine, 2020
Other: Op-eds & Science writing
Report: The intelligent fungi that can revolutionize agriculture | Sliced, 2022
Op-ed: Are Toronto's small concert venues doomed? | Toronto Star, 2021
- Published in print; also published in St. Catharines Standard, Welland Tribune
