Selected Writing

Recent Criticism

Review of Jon Fosse’s Vaim (Financial Times)

Patricia Lockwood’s Mind-Opening Experience of Long COVID: Review of Will There Ever Be Another You (The Atlantic)

The Most Dangerous Kind of Friendship: Review of Stephanie Wambugu’s Lonely Crowds (The Atlantic)

Stop Living Inside Literature: Review of Tezer Özlü’s Journey to the Edge of Life (LARB)

Why We’re Still Talking About the Trauma Plot: Review of Jamie Hood’s Trauma Plot: A Life (The Atlantic)

The Novel Cover Changes and Changes (Prune)

Victims of Violence Don’t Owe the Public Anything: Review of Omar Khalifah’s Sand-Catcher (The Atlantic)

Mid Recs: On BookTok and its Canons (Mid Theory Collective)

The Enlightenment Is Just One Side of the Story: Review of Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium (The Atlantic)

The Attention Plot (Dirt)

The Cheapness of Luxury: Review of Yasmin Zaher’s The Coin (The Atlantic)

A Powerful Indictment of the Art World: Review of Hari Kunzru’s Blue Ruin (The Atlantic)

In this Kafka-inspired novel, anxiety is inescapable: Review of Gillian Linden’s Negative Space (The Washington Post)

Third Place Husbands: On Rachel Ingalls’ In the Act (Cleveland Review of Books)

What the Gig Economy Does to a Human: Review of Joanne McNeil’s Wrong Way (The Atlantic)

What Can True Crime Offer Us?: Review of Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions for You (The Nation)

Gaps: A Review of Girl, Interrupted (30th Anniversary Edition) (LIBER: A Feminist Review)

Sweating Through Space and Time: review of Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X (Cleveland Review of Books)

Coming of age in Warhol’s world of imitations and copies: Review of Nicole Flattery’s Nothing Special (The Washington Post)

Tezer Özlü’s Cold Nights of Childhood (The Brooklyn Rail)

Minimally Focused: Carver, TikTok, and Minimalist Form (Post45)

A collection of tools designed to help us make our time our own again: Review of Jenny Odell’s Saving Time (The Washington Post)

Mother Knows Best: Review of Emi Yagi’s Diary of a Void (The Baffler)

Doom-Scroll: On Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts (Cleveland Review of Books)

Love, the Archive: On Laurie Colwin’s Another Marvelous Thing (Ploughshares Blog)

The Promise of Karaoke: On Christine Smallwood’s Life of the Mind (Ploughshares Blog)