Journalism

My work has appeared at The Believer, StarTrek.com, The Stranger, Tor.com, WIRED, and more. As executive editor of the Portland Mercury, I covered politics, film, books, and just about anything else you can think of.

Select clips are below, and a horrifying amount of my work is available via Authory.

NEWS
• Rep. Earl Blumenauer on climate change: “Congress needs to understand this is an emergency and act like it” (Portland Mercury, 7/9/2019)
• With municipal broadband, cities are taking back the internet — and making it faster and cheaper. Can Portland do the same? (Portland Mercury, 5/9/2018)

FILM
• Guillermo del Toro discusses the tragedy and delight of The Shape of Water (Portland Mercury, 12/13/2017)
• With 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Hollywood Theatre brings 70mm back to Portland (Portland Mercury, 3/18/2015)

TV
• Star Trek‘s best revolutions and rebellions (StarTrek.com, 7/3/2020)
• Before Lower Decks, there was Star Trek: The Animated Series (StarTrek.com, 11/10/2020)

BOOKS
• Cory Doctorow’s Radicalized examines our dark present, and our possibly slightly less dark future (Tor.com, 3/19/2019)
• Matt Fraction relaunches his trippy spy epic Casanova (Portland Mercury, 7/28/2010)

THOSE DAMN VIDEO GAMES
• Sandbox games in a locked-down world: Freedom and choice in open-world video games (The Believer, 9/15/2021)
• Tom Bissell and a new way of thinking (and writing) about video games (Portland Mercury, 6/3/2010)