Religion


Foreign priests find a spiritual home in Shinto

May 4, 2016
The Japan Times

My weekend with white nationalists

June 12, 2018
The Outline

God saw all that He had memed, and behold, it was very epic

April 17, 2019
The Outline

In Japan, a debate about swastikas takes on new urgency

January 24, 2019
The Outline

Music


A punk academic helps you justify your love for Madonna’s music videos

May 23, 2019
The Outline

Oh no, I’m a Tool fan again

May 10, 2019
The Outline

Good vibrations: I purified myself in a sound bath

May 2, 2019
The Outline

Full of Hell: a ‘Weeping Choir’ of weeping souls

May 21, 2019
Invisible Oranges

Oozing Wound keeps on oozing: Zack Weil talks “High Anxiety” + new music video

March 5, 2019
Invisible Oranges

An evening with Black Midi, the best new rock band you should know about

March 26, 2019
The Outline

The ambient jams of ‘Kankyo Ongaku’ will help you achieve full consciousness

March 13, 2019
The Outline

You don’t need just one Merzbow podcast. You need two

February 21, 2019
The Outline

There’s a new way for MySpace music mourners to revisit the past

April 4, 2019
The Outline

Here are 21 covers of Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid”

January 25, 2019
The Outline

Abdullah Ibrahim’s ‘tawhid’

June 23, 2017
Africa is a Country

Culture


The woman who recorded 70,000 VHS tapes of. . .news

April 30, 2019
The Outline

Remembering a giant

April 19, 2019
The Outline

A fantasy getaway in a fish tank

March 29, 2019
The Outline

Tim Heidecker knows how absurd this is

February 26, 2019
The Outline

Warhol’s ‘Clockwork Orange is weirder than Kubrick’s

March 1, 2019
The Outline

A Democrateic presidential candidate’s curious alt-right fandom

March 18, 2019
The Outline

The nerds who hate ‘Captain Marvel’

March 6, 2019
The Outline

Horror buffs, meet music nerds

May 15, 2019
The Outline

‘The Case Against Adnan Syed’ rewards people who don’t like podcasts

March 11,2019
The Outline

They didn’t have to make Will Smith blue

February 14, 2019
The Outline

How ‘Russian Doll’ flirts with psychedelic therapy

February 11, 2019
The Outline

How do you tell what words mean?

February 7, 2019
The Outline

Ted Bundy would be thrilled to know we’re still talking about him

February 4, 2019
The Outline

CNN’s Will Ripley swaps risk for robots with ‘Made in Japan’

March 27, 2016
The Japan Times

Jerry Blackman review

April 2017
Artforum

Reading the classics to resist misogyny

October 18, 2018
Los Angeles Review of Books

These melancholy photos capture playgrounds in flux

October 10, 2017
Surface Magazine

Architects Weigh In on the “Bilbao Effect” 20 Years Later

October 19, 2017
Surface Magazine