Once Upon a Time in Tenoxtitlan
Review of Álvaro Enrigue’s You Dreamed of Empires and Yuri Herrera’s Season of the Swamp.
Public Books, 2025 (Link)
Growing Up in the World Made by Femicide
Review of Fernanda Melchor’s Paradais.
Public Books, 2023 (Link)
Lying, Archiving, Surviving: On Fernanda Melchor’s “This is Not Miami.”
Los Angeles Review of Books, 2023 (Link)
Taking Note of Violence
Review of Lee Ann Fujii’s Show Time: The Logic and Power of Violent Display.
Los Angeles Review of Books, 2022 (Link)
US strikes on Venezuelan ‘drug boats’ have killed 14 people. What is Trump trying to do?
The Conversation, 2025 (Link)
The Trump administration wants to use the military against drug traffickers. History suggests this may backfire
The Conversation, 2025 (Link)
Mexico has a trailblazing new president. But does she have any new ideas to tackle spiralling crime?
The Conversation, 2024 (Link)
The US election has put the spotlight on Haiti. Its history reveals extensive exploitation by the US – and France
The Conversation, 2024 (Link)
The Battles After the Battle: Interpreting Violence and Memory in Culiacán
Co-edited with Michael Lettieri and Cecilia Farfán.
Mexico Violence Research Project and Revista Espejo, 2020
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Threats as a Tool of Criminal Governance
Co-authored with Shauna Gillooly.
Political Violence at a Glance, 2023 (Link)
What Will it Take to End Indefinite Detention at Guantánamo Bay?
Political Violence at a Glance, 2021 (Link)
In Defense of Zombies
Political Violence at a Glance, 2020 (Link)
Militarized Security and a Cartel Apology in Matamoros
NACLA, 2023 (Link)
The Jakarta Method Comes to Latin America
Review of Jason Bevins’s The Jakarta Method.
NACLA, 2020 (Link)
Narco-terrorism Charges Against Maduro and the “Cartel of the Suns”
NACLA, 2020 (Link)
Revisiting the Battle of Culiacán
NACLA, 2019 (Link)
López Obrador’s Public Enemy Number One
NACLA, 2019 (Link)
Philip Luke Johnson 