Lena Wilson
Journalist and Writer
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Journalism

Lena Wilson creates cultural criticism, human interest features, and other works across media.

 
 

Here are all of the outlets where I have author pages, ordered chronologically:

Mother Jones
Gothamist
IGN
The Film Stage
TheWrap
Creepy Catalog
The Playlist
The New York Times
Columbia Journalism Review
Slate
Paste Magazine
The Valley Advocate
ScreenRant

You can find a list of all of my audio appearances to date here.

Scroll on for specific pieces, divided by type of work.

Reviews

Beyond the free film reviews I post to this website, here are some of my favorite reviews:

  • This dark academia thriller leans very heavily into the darkness (The Washington Post)

  • ‘Violation’ Review: The Trauma of Vengeance (NYTimes)

  • ‘Watcher’ Review: Terror at a Glance (NYTimes)

  • '‘Novocaine’ Review: Jack Quaid is irresistible as a pathetic man who can take a punch (IGN)

  • Girl Hunter or Girl Hunted? (NYT Book Review)

  • ‘Plain Bad Heroines’ Is a New Kind of Lesbian Fiction (NYT Book Review)

Essays

  • Scary Habits: Why Is Horror So Obsessed With Nuns? (Mother Jones)

  • I Know Where You Lived Last Summer (NYTimes)

  • Rape-Revenge Tales: Cathartic? Maybe. Incomplete? Definitely. (NYTimes)

  • How the Clique Books Taught Me to Hate Other Girls and Myself (NYTimes)

  • The case for ‘highbrow shitposting’: A missing link between journalism and TikTok (Columbia Journalism Review)

  • The Confusing State of Microcelebrity, From Someone Who’s Living It (Cosmopolitan)

Reporting

  • This experimental show takes place at a Brooklyn bodega (Time Out)

  • Meet some of the NYC Catholics who want to change the Church (Gothamist)

  • ‘Harry Potter’ and the Prisoners of Quarantine (NYTimes)

  • What Is Randonautica Really About? (NYTimes)

  • Where Did All the Lesbian Bars Go? Increasingly, They’re on TV (NYTimes)

  • Planned Parenthood Launches Online Tool as Restrictions Come ‘Fast and Furious’ (NYTimes)

Interviews & Profiles

  • Jasmine Guillory is trying out a new kind of happily ever after (The Washington Post)

  • How 'Jennifer's Body' Bewitched 2 Queer Writers (HuffPost)

  • Emerging Directors, Re-emerging Horrors (NYTimes)

  • Diablo Cody Talks ‘Tully,’ Feminist Filmmaking, And The Underrated ‘Jennifer’s Body’ (The Playlist)

  • Aaron Katz and John Cho Discuss How “Gemini” Bends Noir and Addresses The #MeToo Movement (The Playlist)

Other Work

  • Hereditary Finds the Horror in Denial and Repression (Bitch)

  • Lady Bird Closes 2017 with a Long-Deserved Celebration of Girlhood (The Book Smugglers)