Publications

Essays, reviews, and criticism.

Essays

Cool Enchantment — Public Books (2025)

Where Even Shadows Hum: Judee Sill, Weyes Blood, and the Ghosts of Laurel Canyon — Image (Issue 126, 2025)

Reviews and Criticism

The New Criterion (Dispatch)

Vitally spirited — The New Criterion (Mar 6, 2025)

Styles noble & fantastic — The New Criterion (Mar 20, 2025)

Two Heinrichs & a Henry — The New Criterion (Mar 31, 2025)

Orpheus in chartreuse — The New Criterion (May 8, 2025)

Pekka, Esa-Pekka & the Philharmonic — The New Criterion (May 27, 2025)

Credible tones — The New Criterion (Jul 28, 2025)

Trembling air — The New Criterion (Sep 24, 2025)


A notebook by M. P. Kennedy.

Woodblock print by Frances Gearhart, depicting woods and the California coastline.