On Contemporary Film and Television (selected)
Reviews of The Holdovers, Challengers, Wuthering Heights, and others at The New Republic, 2023-
On You Hurt My Feelings and the work of Nicole Holofcener, The Village Voice, 2023
On Fleishman is in Trouble, FBoy Island, and more, The AV Club, 2022-
On Bob Odenkirk, Andrea Savage, and more, Paste Magazine, 2022-
On Fran Lebowitz and Pretend It’s a City, Jessie Buckley, the Women of SNL, and more at Literary Hub, 2021-
On Materialists and Meghan Markle, Bridgerton and Hacks, Tracy Flick, and more at LA Review of Books, 2019-
On Broadcasting History
Seven Takes on the Blooper Reel, Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy, 2025
On “Lessons in Chemistry” and women on local television, New York Times, 2023
On Women and the Golden Age of Television, Village Voice, 2023
On the Women Writers of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Literary Hub, 2022
On Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos, Washington Post [Outlook], 2021
On Women Story Editors in 1950s Television, Camera Obscura, 2019
On Contemporary Literature (Fiction, Non-fiction) (selected)
Review of Ben Singer’s Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever, The Yale Review, 2024
Interviews with Katherine Heiny, Shannon Sanders, and others at the Washington City Paper, 2023-
Reviews of Emily Henry’s Happy Place, Kristen Arnett’s Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One, Halle Butler’s Banal Nightmare, and more at the Washington Post’s Book World, 2022-
Reviews of Erin Somers’ The Ten Year Affair, Catherine Newman’s Wreck, Jenny Slate’s Lifeform, Elizabeth Strout’s Tell Me Everything, and others at the Los Angeles Review of Books, 2019-
On Millennial Pop Culture
On “Ugh! As If!” and Clueless, Defector, 2025
On the Anniversary of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, LARB, 2024
On Committing to The Notebook, Literary Hub, 2023
On 3rd Rock From the Sun as Crypto-Jewish Sitcom, Hey Alma, 2021
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Annie Berke has also published fiction in Pithead Chapel, Maudlin House, HOOT, and Five South, as humor pieces in McSweeney’s, The Belladonna Comedy, and Points In Case.