Writing

Piece on AI and literary translation for The Atlantic (forthcoming 2023)

“On the Accidental Art of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater” for Electric Literature (forthcoming 2023)

How Should Portuguese Americans Be Classified? for The Atlantic (2023)

Tr. of Teresa Veiga’s “The Bleak House” (from European Portuguese) for The Iowa Review (2023)

My Parents Are Hackers Out of Necessity for New York Times Opinion (2022)

Where I Go: The Best Basketball Court in Lisbon for Zócalo Public Square (2022)

Lisbon’s “New Fados” for Resident Advisor (2022)

My Parents Are Growing Old With Cerebral Palsy—and Our Health Care System Is Failing Them for The New Republic (2022)

Translation of Gustavo Pacheco’s “Natural History” (from Brazilian Portuguese) for AGNI (Fall 2021, print)

Meet speedrunner GeorgeThePlushie, the fastest ‘Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater’ player alive for NME (2021)

A Mental Map of Eastern Europe for Willow Springs (forthcoming Fall 2021, print)

Dalinian Triangle for Post Road (Fall 2021, print)

Finally, Portuguese Creole Rap Is Getting the Attention It Deserves for VICE’S i-D (2021)

For Want Of for The Common (2020)

What Turned Mexico Into a ‘Visceraless’ State? Cristina Rivera Garza Has a Few Ideas for Words Without Borders (2020)

Meet The New Voices of the Exuberant Hip-Hop Scene in Northern Portugal for Bandcamp’s Scene Report (2021)

Why English Speakers Love Listening to Music in Foreign Languages for DJBooth (2020)

Review of László Krasznahorkai’s BARON WENCKHEIM’S HOMECOMING for AGNI  (2020)

Regarding Local-Skatepark-Man, the Red-Haired Woman, and All They Have Hitherto Provoked Within Me for Joyland (2020)

By Diverse Means We Arrive at the Same Enders for Redivider (2019)

10 Portuguese Rappers You Need to Know for Highsnobiety (2019)

10 Ukrainian Rappers You Need to Know for Highsnobiety (2019)

Zoran for F(r)iction (print, 2019)

10 Brazilian Rappers You Need to Know for Highsnobiety (2019)

Trying to Figure Out Bruce Chatwin’s Unpublished Magnum Opus for Literary Hub (2019)

What Pokémon Can Teach Us About Fiction for The New York Times Book Review (2018)

5 Brazilian Women You Should Read Who Aren’t Clarice Lispector for The Millions (2018)

Portugal Is Not A Small A Country for Full Stop Magazine (2018)

The Parts That Make a Whole for Full Stop Magazine (2018)

On Home and Elsewhere for The Millions (2018)

Renaissance Lit and the Importance of (Not) Being Earnest for The Stockholm Review of Literature (2017)

Longmont Potion Castle and the Art of Absurdist Prank Dialling for 3:AM Magazine (2017)

Thomas Bernhard and the Art of Agitation for Ploughshares (2016)

Robert Walser’s True Truths for Ploughshares (2016)

René Daumal and the Science of Imaginary Solutions for Ploughshares (2016)

Macedonio, Argentina’s Man of Letters for Ploughshares (2016)

Baker, Birdwatcher for Ploughshares (2016)

The Perpetual Stranger for This Is Africa (2016)

Review of Passages: Africa for This Is Africa (2016)

Behind the Iron Cage: What Can Max Weber Tell Us About Leo Tolstoy? for 3:AM Magazine (2015)