I'm a writer based out of Albany, New York
I write about contemporary literature, video games, Gen Z, masculinity, weird sports, and upstate New York. Or whatever, really.
My essays have appeared in The Point, The Baffler, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and more
email me: dolan [dot] martin [dot] m [at] gmail.com
twitter: @dolanmart_in
Real Men - The Point (April 2025)
On Andrew Lipstein's Something Rotten and the "problem" of masculinity in contemporary fiction
And They're Off - The Baffler (April 2025)
On barbacking at the Saratoga Race Course
Coming Up Millroses - The New York Review of Architecture (March 2025)
A dispatch from the Fort Washington Avenue Armory
Too Much Industry - Mid Theory Collective (January 2025)
On Marijam Did's Everything to Play For and a left(ish) perspective of video games
No Expectations - The Point (November 2024)
A Gen Z perspective on the 2024 election
Not My First Review - The Cleveland Review of Books (May 2024)
On Honor Levy, buzzy debuts, and whatever the hell Gen Z literature is
The Contours of Negative Space - The Los Angeles Review of Books (March 2024)
On Tessa Hulls' Feeding Ghosts
Second Growth Forest - The Washington Square Review (March 2024)
On Russel Banks' American Spirits
Exterior Lives - Full Stop (February 2024)
on Graywolf's Critical Hits Anthology and writing about video games
Space Junk - The Baffler (December 2023)
on Bethesda Game Studios and Microsoft's monopolization plot
Playing with Nature - The Los Angeles Review of Books (July 2023)
The Legend of Zelda as Ecofiction
page last updated April 26, 2025