Writing
Forthcoming. Think Only of the Shore: Of Sea Lion Stomachs and Survival in Tlingit Oral Tradition. New York: Cabinet Books and MIT Press.
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Forthcoming. "How to Build a Salmon Fort: Fish Camp and the Architecture of Immortality," Manifest: A Journal of the Americas.
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2023. "The Salmon Hook Speech: Íx̱tʼíkʼ Éesh A.P. Johnsonʼs Theory of Language," Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 79/80. PDF
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2022. "Mrs. Nyman and Monsieur Proust: An Experiment in Comparative Literature." L'Esprit Créateur, Vol. 62, No. 3, Special Issue: "Proust to Other Ends". PDF
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2022. "Prisoners of the Dream: Inception and Coors, Capitalism and Pandemic Dreaming." Cabinet: Kiosk. Read Online.
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2021. “The Sleep of the Dream in the Age of the Artwork.” In The Dreamers: Catalogue of the 58th October Salon. Rome and Belgrade: CURA.BOOKS. PDF
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2021. “Myth Lessons: The Carceral State and the Limits of Sentimental Realism.” Cabinet: Kiosk. Read Online.
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2021. "Three Towns and a Video Store: On the Fiction of David Leo Rice." Introduction to Drifter: Stories by David Leo Rice.
Minneapolis: 11:11 Press.
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2020. “Art and Aliveness on the Northwest Coast.” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 73/74. Read Online.
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2020. “On Dream Sharing and Its Purpose.” Cabinet, 67. Read Online.
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2020. “Wittgenstein's Dream, 13 January 1922.” Cabinet, 67. PDF
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2019. “It Describes What God Is.” PS: Political Science and Politics, 52, 1. PDF
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2019. “Myth and Anarchy.” Yale Review, 107, 2. PDF
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2019. “All Manner of Thing Shall Be Alive.” In Teresita Fernández: Elemental, Exhibition Catalogue. New York: Del Monico Prestel.
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2018. “The Sea-Lion Stomach of Desire.” Mítos, Vol. 1. Read Online.
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2017. “On Laughter and Dreaming in Pushkin.” Pushkin Review, 18-19. PDF
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2016. “Man on Glacier.” Cabinet, 59.
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2016. “Poor, Righteous Teachers: The Men Who are Gods.” Cabinet, 60. Read Online.
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2016. “Proust in the Dreamtime.” Yale Review, 104, 2. PDF
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2015. “Martin Fröst.” Yale Review, 103, 3. PDF
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2015. “The Crucifixion of Kent: Life and Work of an American Sculptor. In Two Parts.” Music & Literature. Read Online.
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2015. “Four and Twenty Bluebeards, Baked in a Pie: On the Laws of Operatic Space-Time.” Music & Literature. Republished by BBC Culture. Read Online.
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2015. “The Holy Fire and the Lonely Saint: Helplessness and Inner Life.” Cabinet, 57. PDF
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2014. “The Chimeric Element in Perception: A First Exploration.” Southwest Review, 99, 1. Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2014. PDF
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2014. “The Epic Art of the Haida Mythtellers.” Los Angeles Review of Books. Read Online.
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2014. “"Myth is a Theorem about the Nature of Reality." Interview with Robert Bringhurst.” Guernica. Read Online.
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2014. “NJ Should Invest in College for Prison Inmates.” Newark Star-Ledger. Co-written with Ross Lerner.
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2013. “Child of Paradise.” Yale Review, 101, 1. PDF
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2013. “Feeling Dreams in Romeo and Juliet.” English Literary Renaissance, 43, 1. PDF
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2012. “Notes from Another World.” Princeton Alumni Weekly. Excerpts republished in Forbes. Read Online.