Around Deer’s Slope”–an essay on walking for the book Where My Feet Fall, published by William Collins in Britain and excerpted in Orion, as “Never the Same River Twice,” March 16, 2022
“At a Loss”–an essay on Juzo Itami’s film The Funeral, for a new Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-Ray released on May 17, 2022, and adapted into an essay, “Last Rites and Comic Flights”, appearing in the Summer 2022 issue of The American Scholar.
“Open Borders, Fresh Perspective”—an essay on the art-island of Naoshima, for the Financial Times, June 18, 2022.
“A Broken Town”–a short piece on Yemen for Lion’s Roar, July 2022.
Essays on the four seasons in Japan for a catalogue and exhibition, “Spirit of Shizen” produced by the Luxembourg Museum of Natural History, July 2022
“Kuwait from On High”—an essay on Imagine a City, by Mark Vanhoenacker, for Air Mail, June 25, 2022.
“Epiphany”—a long essay on Ethiopia and spiritual transport for Chris Rainier’s book of photographs, Sacred, September 2022.
“A Journal of the Plague Year”—an essay on Lucy by the Sea, by Elizabeth Strout, for Air Mail, September 17, 2022
“Mysteries in Plain Sight”—an essay on the photographs of Tom Sandberg, appearing in a new book called “Tom Sandberg,” put out by Aperture Press and excerpted in The Observer, October 16, 2022.
The debut podcast for Satori magazine in Britain, with Lawrence Rice, October 28, 2022.