ESSAYS / INTERVIEWS
On The World Frank Walter Made for Pioneer Works Broadcast (and David Zwirner Books)
On Harry Belafonte (1927-2023) for NPR
With Hilton Als for Pioneer Works Broadcast
On Robert Farris Thompson (and Greg Tate) for The New York Review of Books
With Elif Batuman for Pioneer Works Broadcast
On The New Yorkers for The New York Times Book Review
On Brooklyn’s Ghost Streams for Pioneer Works Broadcast
On Francisco Goldman for The New York Review of Books
On The Power of Place-Names for The New York Times
On New York’s Indigenous Roots for The New Yorker
On Naming New York City for The New York Review of Books
On Pandemics and Islands for The New York Review of Books
On What Are Borders For? for The New Yorker
On Hip-Hop’s Birth and the Burning of the Bronx for PBS
On Storm Songs in the Caribbean for The New York Times
On Hispaniola (and the Haiti-DR border) for Stranger’s Guide
On Aretha’s Grace: The Untold Story for The New York Review of Books
On Chain Link Fences (and Chris Ofili) for The New York Review of Books
On Monarchs and Migration for The New Yorker
On Memories of Underdevelopment (the film) for The Criterion Collection
On Carnival in Haiti for The Wall Street Journal
On The World Cup Final in Russia for The New York Review of Books
On Jules Rimet, Inventor of the World Cup for The New York Review of Books
On Why We Watch Soccer for Public Books
On Haiti's Freemasons for The New York Review of Books
On Life on the Verge (in Cuba) for The New York Review of Books
With Marlon James for The New York Review of Books
On Dominica: After the Storm for The New York Review of Books
On The Birth of the US-Mexico Border for Harper's
On A Perfect Storm (and Puerto Rico) for The New York Review of Books
On Havana's Neon Signs for VQR
On Grenada's Revolution for The New York Review of Books
On Buena Vista Social Club (the film) for The Criterion Collection
On Yale vs. History (and Calhoun College) for The New York Review of Books
On Derek Walcott and Peter Doig for The New Yorker
On Hurricanes and History for Lithub
On Fidel's Last March: the Photos for Aperture
On Jamaica Kincaid's Antigua for Lithub (from Island People)
On Peter Tosh in The Paris Review (from Island People)
On Fidel Castro's Funeral for Catapult
With RZA for Lithub (and Nonstop Metropolis)
On Haiti's Madam Saras for The New Yorker
On 'Trinidad Jack' and FIFA for Harper's
On Haitians in the Dominican Republic for The New Yorker
On Détente in Havana for The New Yorker
On Fidel Castro's Hometown for The New Yorker
On The Power of Maps for Harper's
On Bob Marley for The New York Review of Books
With Peter Doig for The Believer
With Lady Saw for The Believer
With Harry Belafonte for New York
On Shipyards and Sounds (from Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas)
On C.L.R. James in America for Transition
With Geoff Dyer for Sight and Sound
On Everest ("Jay") Telfer, Jr. for the Trinidad Guardian
On Film and Violence in Mexico for Sight & Sound
On Why New Orleans Matters for The Nation
On Carnival in Jacmel for Harper's
With Joshua Oppenheimer (filmmaker) for Harper's
With Fernando Trueba (filmmaker) for The Paris Review
On Beyoncé (in Trinidad) for The Los Angeles Review of Books
On Arcade Fire (in Haiti) for The Believer
On John Gillis for The Chronicle Review
On World Cup Soccer for Lapham's Quarterly
On Raúl Castro for The Guardian
On Carl Van Vechten for The Nation
On Caribbean Art for Artforum
On Emory Cook (and phonography) for The Believer
On Paule Marshall for The Caribbean Review of Books
On The Wailers for The Los Angeles Review of Books
On Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz for Transforming Anthropology
With Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (writer) for The Believer
With Rebecca Solnit (writer) for The Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies
With John Akomfrah (filmmaker) for the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival
On Mike Davis's Planet of Slums for Mother Jones
On Haitian History for The Nation
On Martin Luther King, Jr. for the San Francisco Chronicle
On Albert Camus for the San Francisco Chronicle
On Reading the Caribbean for Island People