Back in the Substack salt mines, deleting the old newsletter in the hope of making something readable from the ashes! Named for a symbol in Le Guin’s Always Coming Home, Heyiya-If (and other possibilities), will be a place for slower criticism: heyiyaif.substack.com/p/heyiya-if-...

Not to be hyperbolic and extra, but Vulture's placement of 'The Outing' in their ranking of Seinfeld episodes in one of the worst takes I've ever read, so here's my essay about why it's great and Seinfeld is a messy queer masterpiece: www.intomore.com/entertainmen...

Very grateful to have been able to write a small introductory guide to the work of Edmund White for @anothermag.com: www.anothermag.com/design-livin...

Today’s Editor’s Pick is 'The Rise of the Anonymous Critic' by @sam-moore94.bsky.social for Frieze. How writing negative reviews under a pseudonym can free criticism from the social constraints of the art world—and the importance of avoiding the tasteless writing it can inspire.

Back at @lwlies.com (and back to promoting work) with an essay on political violence, Salo, and more: lwlies.com/articles/fas...

White cube/black box: sculptural light from Germaine Kruip & Anthony McCall @sam-moore94.bsky.social sees the light at The Approach & Tate Modern galleries. recessed.space/00255-Germai...

Very glad to have been able to contribute my top ten film of last year to @cinemayearzero.bsky.social! My ballot (and all the others, from some of my fav writers on film), is here: www.cinemayearzero.com/p/2024-poll-...

Of course a week after I write this, Cena does a heel turn…

“i’ve had a rough year, dad” “i know you have, chassie” always stays with me. how fragile their voices sound. the question of whether it’s not too late to at least try. a very, very important movie to me

Friends fear she has another idea for a niche film newsletter

Screenslate but for London send Tweet (I don't know what these things are called)

I just know I’m gonna be one of those people that writes a piece on substack about their relationship to Lynch’s work

this has always been my favorite picture set of david lynch

The best to ever do it. I vividly remember the joy, shock and singularity of watching Twin Peaks with Joe and dad; seeing Mulholland Drive in Oxford and understanding it’s the best film I’ve ever seen; being terrified by Inland Empire; moved by Sandy’s dream in Blue Velvet. “Fix your hearts or die.”

It’s a new year which means I’m obliged to ply my wares! I write about and teach around art, culture, history, identity, and their intersections. I’ve written for places like Frieze, The Guardian, Little White Lies, and more. I’m always looking to write for new places, so hmu

It’s a new year which means I’m obliged to ply my wares! I write about and teach around art, culture, history, identity, and their intersections. I’ve written for places like Frieze, The Guardian, Little White Lies, and more. I’m always looking to write for new places, so hmu

I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024)

This is one of my favourite things I wrote all year and it remains deeply surreal and special that I got to be involved writing about one of my favourite movies with so many of my favourite writers

Refusal to play healers in hero shooters is a microcosm of a society made selfish by capitalism and neoliberalism, in this essay I will…

Hershey’s at the forefront of Big IP film adaptations with Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)

Gonna do what my former colleague Jeff Goldfarb called "the politics of small things." Weave the texture of the life we want in everyday life. It's not enough but it's not nothing.

she calls me murnau because she fw me

Vanya on 42nd Street The Witch’s Mirror Angel’s Egg High and Low Santa Sangre The Raspberry Reich Distant Voices, Still Lives Beau Travail Under the Silver Lake The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting

Already getting followed by my first weird looking bot-adjacent account; it’s like I never left The Other Place

Wes Craven's analysis of America from this interview he did in 1988 feels like it could have been from yesterday

I’ve decided to be one of those people that does a 🧵 of their publications

First bit of shameless self promo on the new app, in which I return to AnOther to explore the queer history of photography: www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...

letterboxd: boxd.it/mW3

I always forget how bad I am with any social media/platform building, and it becomes this weird, incredibly self-conscious/self-aware thing of posting into the void. Like that one scene in Girls at the end of ‘All Adventurous Women Do’

My toxic trait is getting commissioned to write a feature on the art world being chronically online, and then joining a new social media site