“Notes on True Detective” (with Tariq Goddard). The Quietus (19 February 2024). Review of ‘Season 4: Night Country.’
“How Algernon Blackwood Turned Nature into Sublime Horror.” LitHub (8 March 2021). Excerpt from The Repeater Book of the Occult.
The Quarantine Files: Thinkers in Self-Isolation. Los Angeles Review of Books (14 April 2020).
“Pessimism, Futility, and Extinction.” Theory, Culture & Society (17 March 2020). An in-depth interview with Thomas Dekeyser.
“The Patron Saints of Pessimism: A Writer’s Pantheon.” LitHub (19 July 2018). Excerpt from Infinite Resignation.
“Weird, Eerie, Monstrous.” boundary 2 (27 June 2017). Review essay of Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie.
“The Erotic, Grotesque Nonsense of Edogawa Rampo.” The Japan Times (7 January 2017). Essay on the fiction of Edogawa Rampo.
“The Terror of Deep Time.” The Japan Times (10 December 2016). Essay on the fiction of Izumi Kyoka.
“Early Encounters with the Unhuman.” The Japan Times (5 November 2016). Essay on Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Ugetsu Monogatari).
“All for Naught.” The Digital Dionysus, ed. Dan Mellamphy & Nandita Biswas Mellamphy (Punctum, 2016). Aphorisms on Nietzsche and nihilism.
“Zen and the Poetry of Death.” The Japan Times (2 July 2016). Essay on Zen Death Poems.
“Haruo Sato’s Lush, Gloomy Landscapes.” The Japan Times (4 June 2016). Essay on the fiction of Haruo Sato.
“The Abyss of Keiji Nishitani.” The Japan Times (30 April 2016). Essay on the philosophy of Keiji Nishitani.
“The Disqualified Life of Osamu Dazai.” The Japan Times (26 March 2016). Essay on Dazai’s novel No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku).
“The Unhuman World of Junji Ito.” The Japan Times (30 January 2016). Essay on manga artist Junji Ito.
“12 Fragments on Nihilism.” Four By Three Magazine (2016). From a talk given at The New School.
“Black on Black.” Public Domain Review (9 April 2015). Essay on the color black. Originally published in Mute Magazine.
“Black Bile.” Plinth Magazine (2014). Aphorisms, fragments, poetry.
“On Ascensionism.” Inflexions no. 7 (2014). Notes on Aristotle, Kant, and the ontology of life.
“Divine Darkness.” Speculative Medievalisms, ed. Eileen Joy et al. (Punctum Books, 2013). Essay on darkness motifs in mysticism & philosophy.
“Black Infinity; Or, Oil Discovers Humans.” Pages Magazine (23 October 2013). Essay on the weird fiction of Fritz Leiber.
“The Period of the Sleeping Fits.” Mute Magazine (16 October 2013). Essay on Surrealist poet Robert Desnos.
“Lacking a Homunculus.” Radical Philosophy (September/October 2013). Essay on Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human & climate change.
“We Are Not From Here.” Mute Magazine (19 March 2013). Essay on Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race.
“Melody and Melancholy.” Mute Magazine (23 August 2012). Essay on the music of And Also The Trees.
“The Mourning of Anti-Music.” Mute Magazine (27 March 2012). Essay on Japanese noise (Junko and Keiji Haino).
“Philosophical Doomcore.” Mute Magazine (24 January 2012). Essay on the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.
“Cosmic Pessimism.” Continent (2012). Aphorisms, fragments, poetry.
“Day of Wrath.” Glossator Journal (2012). Essay on the Requiem Mass, Johannes Ockeghem, György Ligeti, and black metal.
“Nekros; or, the Poetics of Biopolitics.” Incognetum Hactenus (2012). Essay on horror cinema, the living dead, and the body politic.
“Wayless Abyss: Mysticism, Mediation, and Divine Nothingness.” Postmedieval 3.1 (2012). Essay on the role of the abyss in John Ruusbroec and Meister Eckhart.
“Unnameable Thing.” Nyx – A Nocturnal #6 (2012). Essay on philosophy and the horror genre; excerpt from In the Dust of This Planet.
“Darklife: Negation, Nothingness, and the Will-to-Life in Schopenhauer.” Parrhesia (2011). Essay on the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer & German Idealism.
“Devil’s Switchboard.” Mute Magazine (26 May 2011). Essay on Renaissance demonology.
“Passionate Divas.” Mute Magazine (12 January 2011). Essay on horror cinema and Italian silent film divas.
“Black Meta.” Mute Magazine (24 August 2010). Essay on ‘black metal theory'.
“After Life: De anima and Unhuman Politics.” Radical Philosophy (2009). essay on Aristotle, Kant, & the critique of life.