Selected Writing

Toronto Life
Making a Mayor [Cover Story]

Pitchfork
Bon Iver: SABLE, fABLE
The Tragically Hip: Fully Completely
William Ackerman: In Search of the Turtle’s Navel

Playboy
The Playboy guide to the 2026 World Cup

The FADER
Haruomi Hosono’s endless experiment
Getting lost with Ravyn Lenae [Cover Story]
What Hagop Tchaparian took with him

The Globe & Mail
Becoming a stand-up comedian meant succeeding at failure

The New York Times
Glaive and Hyperpop’s Breakthrough Moment

Deadspin
How one rich man’s weird dream transformed a British soccer team

Huck
The harrowing story of England’s first openly gay footballer

Vice
What ever happened to Willis Earl Beal?

Publications

SORRY is a magazine about Toronto
No Commentary is a newsletter about obscure soccer

Work

Creative Director, VaynerMedia (2025-26)

Editorial Director, The FADER (2021-25)
Editor, The FADER (2019-21)

Contributing Editor, Vice (2016-19)

Contact

alex [at] alexrobertross [dot] com