Lee Godie
Art Criticism and Features
“Arch Connelly at Corbett vs. Dempsey,” Artforum, 2025
“Gertrude Abercrombie Show Proves ‘The Whole World Is a Mystery,’” Art in America, 2025
“Howard Kottler at Volume Gallery,” Artforum, 2025
“Why Leah Ke Yi Zheng Dropped Out of Law School to Make Art,” Art in America, 2025
“Gregg Bordowitz: Collaging Life, Poetry and the Politics of Survival,” Frieze, 2025
“No Holds Barred: On the Art of Barbara DeGenevieve,” Artforum, 2025
“Andrea Carlson’s Frenetic Landscapes Channel Disjointed Histories and Deep Time,” Art in America, 2025
“Alice Tippit at Patron Gallery,” Artforum, 2025
“Scott Burton’s Retrospective Offers Quality People Watching,” Art in America, 2024
“Margaret Wharton at Rhona Hoffman Gallery,” Artforum, 2024
“William Schaeuble at Povos Gallery,” Artforum, 2024
“Mina Loy at the Arts Club of Chicago,” Artforum, 2024
“Romantic and Brawling: On Four Chicago Artists,” Momus, 2024
“Ritualistic Postures: On Christina Ramberg,” The Baffler, 2024
“The Image Pool at DePaul Art Museum,” Artforum, 2024
“Iconoclastic Artist Alice Shaddle Re-Emerges in Chicago Exhibition,” Art in America, 2024
“Courttney Cooper at Western Exhibitions,” Artforum, 2024
“Patric McCoy at Wrightwood 659,” Artforum, 2023
“Remedios Varo’s First-Rate Surrealist Storytelling Gets Its Due in a Stunning Chicago Survey,” Art in America, 2023
“An Eclectic Archive of Cultural Currents: ‘The First Homosexuals’ at Wrightwood 659,” Art in America, 2022
“Pleasure in Perversion: Austin Osman Spare at Iceberg Projects,” Art in America, 2022
"Overlooked No More: Lee Godie,” The New York Times, 2022
“Birds of Paradise: Tony Fitzpatrick at Cleve Carney Museum of Art,” Art in America, 2021
“The World on a Single Plane: Joseph E. Yoakum at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Art in America, 2021
“One Work: On Yannis Tsarouchis’s ‘Dancing in Real Life and in Theatre,’” Art in America, 2021
“The Psychic Heft of Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s Disfigured Portraits,” Art in America, 2020
“The Mordant Fables of Juraj Herz,” The New York Review of Books, 2020
“Vaginal Davis’s Video The White to Be Angry Is a Ham-Fisted Caricature of Right-Wing Extremism,” Art in America, 2020
“Joseph Sterling’s Mastery of Midcentury Photographic Innovations Was Both a Strength and a Weakness,” Art in America, 2020
“How Andy Warhol painted the West,” High Country News, 2020
“Brittany Nelson Puts a Sci-Fi Spin on Closeted Gay Life,” Art in America, 2019
“American Beauty: April Dawn Alison’s Photographs,” Art in America, 2019
“Revisiting the Provocative AIDS Art of Robert Blanchon,” Hyperallergic, 2018
“Doomed to Pittsburgh: W. Eugene Smith in the City of Steel,” Belt, 2015
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Literary Criticism and Features
“Critic’s Pick: Such Times by Christopher Coe,” 4Columns, 2025
“Lewd, Problematic, and Profoundly Influential: On Dan Nadel’s Crumb,” The New Republic, 2025
“On Joe Westmoreland’s Tramps Like Us,” 4Columns, 2025
“On Pedro Lemebel’s A Last Supper of Queer Apostles,” 4Columns, 2024
“Keith Haring and the Art of Being Everywhere: On Brad Gooch’s Radiant,” The New Republic, 2024
"On Mathias Énard’s The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild,” 4Columns, 2023
“The Canonization of Lou Reed: On Will Hermes’s Lou Reed: The King of New York,” The New Republic, 2023
"Bully Superstar: On Ian Penman’s Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors,” The Baffler, 2023
“Brian Dillon’s Essay Collection Affinities Is a Meditation on the Art of Looking,” Art in America, 2023
“The Lost Music of Connie Converse: On Howard' Fishman’s To Anyone Who Ever Asks,” The New Republic, 2023
“On Jac Jemc’s Empty Theatre,” 4Columns, 2023
"Thom Gunn’s Anti-Confessional Poetry: On The Letters of Thom Gunn,” The New Republic, 2022
“Ask Dr. Mueller: On Cookie Mueller’s Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black,” The Baffler, 2022
“Love and Scandal, Buried for Years at an Elite Boarding School: On Jonathan Galassi’s School Days,” The New York Times Book Review, 2022
“On Adrian Nathan West’s My Father’s Diet,” 4Columns, 2022
“The Trouble with Writing About Vivian Maier: On Ann Marks’s Vivian Maier Developed,” The New Republic, 2021
“Man Ray’s Slow Fade From the Limelight: On Arthur Lubow’s Man Ray,” The New Republic, 2021
“On Dennis Cooper’s I Wished,” 4Columns, 2021
“On Kate Zambreno’s To Write As If Already Dead,” 4Columns, 2021
“The Turbulent Life of Francis Bacon: On Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan’s Francis Bacon: Revelations,” The New Republic, 2021
“The Altered States of John Wieners,” The Nation, 2021
“On Elon Green’s Last Call,” 4Columns, 2021
“On Derek McCormack’s Castle Faggot,” 4Columns, 2020
“The Desolate Visions of Andy Warhol: On Blake Gopnik’s Warhol,” The New Republic, 2020
“On Kathryn Scanlan’s The Dominant Animal,” 4Columns, 2020
“Traitor, Scourge, Prophet: On Larry Kramer’s The American People: Volume 2: The Brutality of Fact,” The Nation, 2020
“On Steve Abbott’s Beautiful Aliens,” 4Columns, 2019
“Lou Sullivan’s Diaries Are a Radical Testament to Trans Happiness,” The New Yorker, 2019
“SCUM Rising: On Sara Stridsberg’s Valerie,” The Baffler, 2019
“The Price You Pay: On Josh Levin’s The Queen,” The Nation, 2019
“Walt Whitman’s Boys,” Boston Review, 2019
“Finally Seeing Andrea: On Andrew Dworkin,” Boston Review, 2019
“Chronicling the Last Days of Old New York: On Gary Indiana’s Vile Days,” Boston Review, 2018
“Reopening the Case Files of Leopold and Loeb: On Nina Barrett’s The Leopold and Loeb Files,” The Paris Review, 2018
“On Michelle McNamara’s Ill Be Gone in the Dark," The Guardian, 2018
“An Aneurism of Axe Murders: On Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James’s The Man from the Train,” The Millions, 2017
“What the Next Generation of Queer Activists Can Learn From Cleve Jones,” The New Republic, 2016
“Love, Loneliness, Rot: On Sonallah Ibrahim’s That Smell,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 2013
“Who Was Henry Darger? On Jim Elledge's Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy,” OUT, 2013
“East Was Eden: On Cynthia Carr’s Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz,” The Brooklyn Rail, 2012
“Lost Highway Revisited: On Ginger Strand’s Killer on the Road,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 2012
Photo by James Hosking
Reportage and Reported Essays
“Fag Rag: The ’70s Paper of Gay Political Revolution,” Columbia Journalism Review, 2020
“An Afghan Variety Show on the Bay,” Pacific Standard, 2018
“The Encyclopedia of the Missing,” Longreads, 2018
“The Night Minister,” Pacific Standard, 2016
“The Erin Brockovich of Porn,” Esquire, 2016
“The Auctioneer’s Chant,” The California Sunday Magazine, 2016
“Why Walmart Became LGBT Friendly,” The Advocate, 2016
“Nothing to Hide,” SF Weekly, 2015
“Fear From Above,” SF Weekly, 2015
“Psychic Capital,” SF Weekly, 2015
“Remembering Those Lost on Flight 17,” The Advocate, 2015
“Ronald Reagan’s Black Magic Man,” Guernica, 2015
“Person of the Year: Vladimir Putin,” The Advocate, 2015
“Tender(loin) is the Night,” OUT, 2014
"Exporting Equality,” The Advocate, 2014
“Reno’s Queens of the Desert,” Dazed, 2014
“Can San Francisco Become America’s First AIDS-Free City,” The Advocate, 2014