Hi I'm Max!
(click here for my bio) Maxwell Neely-Cohen’s work has spanned literature, sound, theater, dance, and technology. His nonfiction and essays have appeared in places like The New Republic, SSENSE, and BOMB Magazine. His performances and experiments have been acclaimed by The New York Times Magazine, Frieze, and The Financial Times. He is the author of the novel Echo of the Boom. He is currently the publisher of The HTML Review, a fellow at the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab, and a consulting dramaturg for the New York Choreographic Institute at New York City Ballet.
(click here for some of what I've been up to)
Writing Century-Scale Storage for the Library Innovation Lab

"Our Symphony" for the Are.na Annual 2023

Color Story: Terminal Green for Ssense

The Chromatic Trip for BOMB

The Life and Death of LOVE Park for Buzzfeed READER

NBA Twitter is Changing the Way We Watch Sports for The New Republic

Brand Anorexia for Los Angeles Review of Books

Everybody's Doing It for The New Inquiry

Echo of the Boom

Performance, Movement, and Dramaturgy Skateboarding as a Movement Language

Theatrical Sound Design

Performing Hannah Weiner's Code Poems

Synthesized Movement Lab

theballet.xyz

Experiments and Prototypes the html review

Street Writer

Live Coding

Read To Me

Drone Poetry

Personal Archives, Libraries, and Journals My digitized closet (inspired by Clueless)

A spreadsheet of the songs stuck in my head in the morning

A friendly neighborhood playlist

My record collection

Make a Beat
Contact instagram, twitter, are.na, bluesky, or maxwellneelycohen (at) gmail