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 (The New York Times Magazine, 2026)
On Infinite Growth Forever (AFM, 2025)
Cracked Actor: Keanu Reeves (Metrograph, 2025)
Lying About Your Age (The New York Times 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 (The New York Times Magazine, 2024)
Capacity to Deform (The Drift, 2024)
Art Basel Diary (Plaster, 2023)
On Derek Jarman’s The Garden (Metrograph, 2023)
Word Salads (The New York TimesMagazine, 2023)
On Gaming, Gaping, and God (Astra, 2022)
Save Scumming, and Art Handling (Dirt, 2022)
External Self-Talk (The New York Times 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 (The New York Times Magazine, 2021)
Snakes (The New York Times Magazine, 2020/21)
-Videos-
“…and then we dance?” ft. Julio Torres + Tilda Swinton (them, 2024)
-Interviews-
100 Gecs (Interview, 2023)
-Reporting and “Reporting”-
“How Do You Make a Medieval Film on a Shoestring Budget?” (The New York Times, 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 (The New York Times, 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 (The New York Times, 2024)
The Taste of Dirt (The New York Times, 2024)
Rising from the Dead at Monster Jam (The New York Times, 2024)
Line Dancing Toward Euphoria (The New York Times, 2023)
Consider the Jockstrap Brand Launch Event Party (Interview, 2023)
-Reviews-
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)
-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)