Selected Writing

“Brute Force: Discrimination, harassment and abuse inside the Toronto Police Service” (Toronto Life, 2024)

“Revenge of the Renter” (Maclean’s, 2023)

“Star Wars: Inside the vicious battle for control of the country’s largest newspaper” (Toronto Life, 2023)

“Eddie Redmayne Gets Serious (Again)” (British GQ, 2022)

“Why Everybody Loves Phonzie” (Maclean’s, 2022)

“Burned Out” (Maclean’s, 2022)

“This Man Would Like Your Attention” (Toronto Life, 2022)

“Mine for Yours: DC’s Blog Is A Lit Community” (Polity of Literature, 2021)

“You Are on the Enemy List of the Black Tarantula” (Polity of Literature, 2020)

“Why We Need to See Images of Animal Cruelty” (The Walrus, 2020)

“Houses of Horror” (Toronto Life, 2020)

“Hamilton’s Bullying Crisis” (Maclean’s, 2020)

“The Flu Shot Crusader” (Toronto Life, 2020)

“Robbie Robertson’s Last Waltz” (Toronto Life, 2019)

“The Secret Life of Food Couriers” (Toronto Life, 2019)

“The Charmed Life of Esther the Wonder Pig” (The Walrus, 2018)

“Inside the All-Consuming World of Paw Patrol” (The Walrus, 2017)

“Dennis Cooper Is a Notorious Novelist. What Kind of Filmmaker Will He Be?” (New York, 2017)

“The Negotiator” (Toronto Life, 2017)

“The Pronoun Warrior” (Toronto Life, 2017)

“Jill Soloway’s New Family” (New York, 2016)

“Operation O’Leary” (Toronto Life, 2016)

“The Mystic” (Toronto Life, 2016)

“The Last Days of Kathy Acker” (Hazlitt, 2015)

“The Captive: John Greyson’s time in Egyptian prison” (Toronto Life, 2014)

“Two (Sucked) Thumbs Up” (New York Times Magazine, 2013)

“Dennis Cooper, Probably” (The Believer, 2005)