On god games ⚘ Real Life
On rabbit holes ⚘ Majuscule
On Kandor ⚘ Poetry
On curses, fools, and Rigoletto ⚘ VAN
On Gary the Snail perfume ⚘ NYLON
On the Frick and Jupiter Ensemble ⚘ VAN
On "I'm baby" ⚘ Vice
On Addison & Paris ⚘ NYLON
On clowns ⚘ Creem
On The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing ⚘ Angel Food
On Dead Weight ⚘ LARB
On Radio Free Roscoe ⚘ The FADER
On Avril Lavigne's Let Go ⚘ NYLON
On Great Grandpa's Four of Arrows ⚘ Pitchfork
On Remi Wolf's I'm Allergic to Dogs! ⚘ Pitchfork
On Black Dresses' Peaceful as Hell ⚘ Pitchfork
On Kinlaw's The Tipping Scale ⚘ Pitchfork
Profiles & Features:
On Angel Olsen ⟢ Crack (cover story)
On Zohran & the NYC music community ⟢ The FADER
On fantasy of a broken heart ⟢ i-D
On LustSickPuppy ⟢ Creem
On Josie & The Pussycats ⟢ The Fader
On Laurie Spiegel ⟢ Crack
On Newport Folk Festival (a guide) ⚘ Thrillist
On Orville Peck ⟢ WePresent
On King Princess ⟢ NYLON
On Forth Wanderers ⟢ Vice
On Ragana ⟢ Revolver
On FKA twigs ⟢ Crack (cover story)
On Palberta ⟢ Vice
On boygenius ⟢ FLOOD
On Nilüfer Yanya ⟢ HighSnobiety
On Doll Skin ⟢ Vice
On Caroline Polachek ⟢ Dazed
On The Cramps (a guide) ⟢ Vice
On Bedouine ⟢ The FADER
On Johan Renck ⟢ Wall Street Journal
On Remember Sports ⟢ The FADER
On David Vassalotti ⟢ Vice
On New York's avant garde dance scene ⟢ Dazed
Interviews:
With YATTA & Moor Mother ⌁ NYLON
With Sheryl Crow ⌁ WSJ
With Vanessa Carlton ⌁ WSJ
With Lucy Dacus ⌁ TCI
With Heba Kadry ⌁ TCI
With Elaine Kahn ⌁ TCI
With Dreamcrusher ⌁ TCI
With Sam Riviere ⌁ TCI
With Angel Marcloid ⌁ TCI
With Phoebe Bridgers ⌁ The FADER
With Molly Nilsson ⌁ The FADER
With the women who engineered Bjork's Utopia ⌁ The FADER
Leah Mandel is a writer and editor based in NYC with an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. She does copywriting, research, artist bios, and trend analysis, and has been a music curator for SoundCloud and Google. She is working on a book of essays about small worlds. And maybe a novel, too, who knows.
