Selected Writing

You can find all my work for ELLE on my author page (here). For selected highlights, please see the list below.

BOOKS

Features and Profiles

• Chloe Gong’s Guide to an Author’s (Extremely Online) Life (ELLE, Profile, September 2024)

• Katie Kitamura Will Return in 2025 With Her Newest Novel, Audition (ELLE, News, July 2024)

• Deborah Harkness, the ‘Accidental Novelist’ Has Years’ Worth of All Souls Books in the Pipeline (ELLE, Profile, July 2024)

• Is Elin Hilderbrand Really Retiring? It’s Complicated. (ELLE, Profile, June 2024)

• Kaliane Bradley Fell in Love With a Dead Man. The Result is The Ministry of Time. (ELLE, Profile, May 2024)

• Is The Idea of You Harry Styles Fanfiction? Robinne Lee Implores You to Look Again. (ELLE, Profile, May 2024)

• Amanda Montell Invites You to the Age of Magical Overthinking (ELLE, Profile, April 2024)

• V.E. Schwab is Rewriting the Rules of Fantasy (And Maybe Life Itself) (ELLE, Profile, October 2023)

Lists and Reviews

• The Best New Books to Read in Summer 2024 (ELLE, June 2024)

• The Best Fantasy and Sci-Fi Books of 2024 (ELLE, May 2024)

• The Best Mystery and Thriller Books of 2024 (ELLE, March 2024)

• The Best Romance Books of 2024 (ELLE, February 2024)

• The Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 (ELLE, January 2024)

• The Best Literary Fiction Books of 2024 (ELLE, January 2024)

Essays

• Can You Rescue A Writer With 1000 Words? (ELLE, Q&A/Essay, January 2024)

TELEVISION

Features and Profiles

• Myha’la Claims Her Name (ELLE, Profile, September 2024)

• Morfydd Clark Isn’t Afraid to Face the Rings of Power Fan Fervor (ELLE, Profile, August 2024)

• Jess Hong Can’t Solve the 3 Body Problem. She’ll Try to Save the World Anyway. (ELLE, Profile, March 2024)

• Women Creatives Thought Hollywood Could Change. Were They Wrong? (ELLE, Feature, December 2023)

• Bella Ramsey, Star of The Last of Us, Wants Much More Than Survival (ELLE, Profile, January 2023)

• Quinta Brunson Has A Hit. Better Yet, She Has A Plan. (ELLE, Profile, April 2022)

• Confronting the Eternal Youth of Anna Chlumsky (ELLE, Profile, February 2022)

• Mackenzie Davis Wakes From A Fever Dream (ELLE, Profile, December 2021)

Reviews, Recaps, and Essays

• Industry Season 3 Recaps (ELLE, Recaps, August-September 2024)

• So Are We Ready to Talk About the Bridgerton Season 3 Carriage Scene? (ELLE, Review, May 2024)

• I Was Begging The Morning Show Not to Do This (ELLE, Review, November 2023)

• The Silo Season Finale Is Somehow Mostly About Tape (ELLE, Review/Recap, July 2023)

• King George’s ‘Madness’ In Queen Charlotte Confronts the Myth of the Love Cure (ELLE, Essay, May 2023)

• Abbott Elementary Understands the Art of the Slow Burn (ELLE, Review, April 2023)

• Outer Banks Never Needed to Do This Much (ELLE, Review, February 2023)

• Andor Played the IP Game the Right Way (ELLE, Review, November 2022)

• Stranger Things Refuses To Twist The Knife. Yet. (ELLE, Review, July 2022)

FILM

Features and Profiles

• Hannah Berner Took the Funniest Possible Road to Fame (ELLE, Profile, July 2024)

• The Simple Yet Remarkable Feat of Women Talking (ELLE, Feature, January 2023)

• Have We Reached the Peak Of the Princess Diana Cinematic Universe? (ELLE, Feature, November 2021)

• Let Fala Chen Reintroduce Herself (ELLE, Profile, August 2021)

Reviews and Recaps

• At Least It Ends With Us Knew How to End (ELLE, Review, August 2024)

• The Dune: Part Two Ending Cements a Warped Take on ‘The One’ (ELLE, Review/Explainer, March 2024)

• The Best (and Buzziest) Films of the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (ELLE, Review, September 2023)

• Barbie’s Final Joke Is Also Its Most Meaningful Lesson (ELLE, Review, July 2023)

• Blonde Isn’t Mere 'Fictionalization' of Marilyn Monroe’s Life. It's Negligence. (ELLE, Review/Explainer, September 2022)

• Don’t Worry Darling’s Plot Twist Is Its Ultimate Undoing (ELLE, Review/Explainer, September 2022)