A visit to Kansas City, MI, where a dynamic history and a downtown revival are examined for Monocle magazine.

As a new documentary illuminates surfing’s African roots, Black people revive their sacred connection to the sport. A report for The Guardian.

For The New York Times, a profile on the LA-based gallery Various Small Fires.

For The New York Times’ Art of Craft series, a profile on Leleo Kinimaka, a woodworker, who pours his native knowledge and passion into one-of-a-kind Alaia board creations that double as works of art.

For the New York Times’ Art of Craft series, a profile on the artist Roberto Benavidez, who is elevating the traditional piñata with his ornate creations.

For Monocle’s paperback companion series, an essay on the value of high points in a city.

For Monocle, a visit to the historical North Bennet Street School in Boston, which is helping to keep American craft alive.

For The New York Times, a profile on Jefa Greenaway, an architect in Australia and a leading proponent of “Country-centered design,” - an approach that calls for collaboration with Indigenous communities and puts sustainability concerns at a project’s core.

For Monocle, meeting the designers bringing fresh visions to old ideas.

For The New York Times. In an anxious time, courses in wilderness survival and military tactics are thriving.

For Monocle, travelling around Rhode Island with the people behind font foundry, Sharp Type, who scour everything from libraries to cemeteries in its mission to create one typeface to rule them all.

It all begins with an idea.

For Port, an interview with the performance artist Marina Abramović and the writer Katya Tylevich.

For The New Yorker, a short summary of Gregory May’s ‘A Madman’s Will’.

For The New York Times, discovering the sites in Oxford where C.S. Lewis, the writer of over 30 books, including the “Chronicles of Narnia” series, found faith, inspiration and a life-changing friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien.

For Hyperallergic, a small exhibition review of Kei Imazu’s first solo show in the United States.

For Monocle, a visit to Studio Mohilef, an artist collective in the City of Angels.

For Port, breakfast with the rising British playwright.

For Port, a conversation with the legendary artist and filmmaker, and arts writer Katya Tylevich, discussing his life and her recent book on the auteur.