Writer and editor from Mississippi. Usually in Brooklyn.
Also: copywriting, fact checking, etc.
hello@paulmcadory.com for all inquiries ;-/
-Essays, Etc.-
Spiritual Digest: The Life You Want (Kismet, 2026)
On Adaptations and Their Discontents (NYT Magazine, 2026)
On Infinite Growth Forever (AFM, 2025)
Cracked Actor: Keanu Reeves (Metrograph, 2025)
Lying About Your Age (NYT Magazine, 2025)
On Being Content (Them, 2025)
On Final Destination 2 (The Metrograph Issue 2, print only, 2025)
(Flip) Flop Summer (The Scoop, print only, 2025)
On the David Lynch Auction (Interview, 2025)
On James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus (Metrograph, 2025)
The Middle Seat (NYT Magazine, 2024)
Capacity to Deform (The Drift, 2024)
Art Basel Diary (Plaster, 2023)
On Derek Jarman’s The Garden (Metrograph, 2023)
Word Salads (NYT Magazine, 2023)
On Gaming, Gaping, and God (Astra, 2022)
Save Scumming, and Art Handling (Dirt, 2022)
External Self-Talk (NYT Magazine, 2022)
On Narrative Illness and Gary Indiana’s Hate-Love Relationships (Gawker, 2022)
Swim Shorts, $159 (The Believer, 2022)
Cranly’s Arm and Gay Subtext in Joyce (Lit Hub, 2022)
Visions of Tom (Joyland, 2022)
Gay Sincerity Is Scary (Gawker, 2021)
Dark Clouds (NYT Magazine, 2021)
Snakes (NYT Magazine, 2020/21)
-Reviews-
Fire Island Art: 100 Years (The Whitney Review, print only, 2026)
On Patricia Lockwood’s Will There Ever Be Another You (Vulture, 2025)
On George Whitmore’s Nebraska (Paris Review, 2025)
Les Vampires (Dirt, 2022)
On Hanne Ørstavik’s Love (The Millions, 2018)
-Reporting and “Reporting”-
How Do You Make a Medieval Film on a Shoestring Budget? (NYT, 2026)
First Came Cake Zine. Then Came Steak Zine. (NYT, 2026)
The New York Review of Finance Welcomes You Into Its Bubble (Study Hall, 2026)
At the Masculinity in Literature Panel (Study Hall, 2026)
The Theater is Tiny, the Popcorn Is Fresh and the Crowd Is Devoted (NYT, 2025)
“We Need You”: Resilience and Despair in the Wake of the NEA Cuts (Study Hall, 2025)
Don’t Worry About Whether Art Basel Is Cool (NYT, 2024)
The Taste of Dirt (NYT, 2024)
Rising from the Dead at Monster Jam (NYT, 2024)
Line Dancing Toward Euphoria (NYT, 2023)
Consider the Jockstrap Brand Launch Event Party (Interview, 2023)
-Videos-
“…and then we dance?” ft. Julio Torres + Tilda Swinton (Them, 2024)
-Interviews-
100 Gecs (Interview, 2023)
-Shorts-
Supply and Demand: On Josh Kline (Frieze Week, 2023)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Screen Slate, 2022)
Mind Game (Screen Slate, 2021)
Announcing Shame Month (McSweeney’s, 2018)