Recent(ish) Writing
On Poetry
“Forrest Gander’s Desert Phenomenology,” The Nation.
“The Pessimist in Exile: On Eugenio Montale,” The Threepenny Review.
“The Quiet Effacement of Light: On The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer,” The Threepenny Review.
“Chants of the Erotomane: On Wayne Koestenbaum’s Stubble Archipelago,” The Los Angeles Review of Books.
On Fiction
“On Siegfried Kracauer’s Ginster,” The Washington Post.
“Perfecting the Art of Pedantry: On Augusto Monterroso’s Acrobatic Minimalism,” The Baffler.
“Haruki Murakami Has Lost the Sauce,” Vulture.
“Pole Dancing: On J.M. Coetzee’s Late Style,” Cleveland Review of Books.
“Mauro Javier Cárdenas on American Abductions,” BOMB Magazine.
“Landscape, Memory: On Gerald Murnane’s Inland,” Curatorial Affairs.
“On Elsa Morante’s Lies and Sorcery,” The Washington Post.
“Pathologies of the Après Garde: On Gary Indiana’s Rent Boy,” Cleveland Review of Books.
“Empty Suits: On Javier Marías’s Spy Fiction,”The Baffler.
“Socialist Weather: On Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos,” Commonweal.
“Fleur Jaeggy's Mourning Exercise: On the Rain-Soaked Tribute of The Water Statues,” The Baffler.
“A Prophet on the Bleeding Edge: On Don DeLillo's The Silence,” Cleveland Review of Books.
“Tove Ditlevsen's Fragmentary Self: On the Radical Facticity of The Copenhagen Trilogy,” The Baffler.
“Dreaming Freely: On the Ecstatic Fictions of Can Xue,” The Los Angeles Review of Books.
“A Light Artist: On Jessica Au’s Cold Enough for Snow,” Cleveland Review of Books.
“Blowin’ in the Wind: On Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season,” The Brooklyn Rail.
“On Woman Running in the Mountains by Yuko Tsushima,” On the Seawall.
On Non-Fiction
“Marilynne Robinson’s False Idylls: On Reading Genesis,” Cleveland Review of Books.
“Soul Aristocrats: Cristina Campo’s fairy-tale mysticism,” The Baffler.
“Éric Chevillard’s Quirked-Up Philosophy of the Museum,” Frieze.
“The Lawn Is Resting: A Visit to Balzac's House,” The Paris Review.
“The Tenacity of Colm Tóibín: On A Guest at the Feast,” Commonweal.
“Reading into Brian Dillon’s Affinities,” Frieze.
“Passion, Edited: An Interview with Frederic Tuten,” Cleveland Review of Books.
“The Grubby Surrealism of Jesse Ball’s Autoportrait,” Frieze.
On Art
“Dust and Light: On Moyra Davey’s Index Cards,” Cleveland Review of Books.
“The Empty Suits: On The Last Knight at the Met,” The Los Angeles Review of Books.
“Designing for Death: On Hito Steyerl’s Drill,” The Los Angeles Review of Books.
“Visceral Drawings from Antonin Artaud’s Final Years,” Hyperallergic.
“The World as Ornament: On The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists,” The Los Angeles Review of Books.
“The Grotesque, The Digital,” Hypocrite Reader.
“Notes on Chance: The Art of Cage and Kushner,” Hypocrite Reader.
“Bodies Electric,” Harvard Magazine.
The Rest
“The Fiction of Limbo: Novelist Paul Yoon explores Laos’s forgotten war,” Harvard Magazine.
“Minor Detail by Adania Shibli,” Ploughshares.
“Kafka, Kafka Everywhere,” Tablet Magazine.
“Refurnishing the Fund: On Phil Christman's Midwest Futures,” Cleveland Review of Books.
“On Marrow and Bone by Walter Kempowski,” On the Seawall.
“On All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal,” Full Stop.
“On Aharon Appelfeld’s To the Edge of Sorrow,” Tablet Magazine.
“On Cleanness by Garth Greenwell,” Ploughshares.
“On The Hills Reply by Tarjei Vesaas,” Ploughshares.
“On The Heart is a Full-Wild Beast by John L’Heureux,” On the Seawall.
“Anxieties of Cohesion: On Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School,” Cleveland Review of Books.
“On The Factory by Hiroko Oyomada,” Ploughshares.
“On Girl by Edna O’Brien,” Ploughshares.
“On Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water by António Lobo Antunes,” Full Stop.
“No Extraordinary Space: On Ambai’s Kitchen in the Corner of the House,” 3:AM Magazine.
“On Berta Isla by Javier Marías,” Open Letters Review.
“The Jewish Half-Lives of Patrick Modiano,” Tablet Magazine.
“On A King Alone by Jean Giono,” Harvard Review.
“On Professor Andersen’s Night by Dag Solstad,” Open Letters Review.
“On The Secret Commonwealth by Robert Kirk,” Open Letters Review.
“On Intimate Ties by Robert Musil,” Open Letters Review.
“On Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann,” Ploughshares.
“The Runaway Combinatorics of Mac’s Problem,” 3:AM Magazine.
“On The Unnameable Present by Roberto Calasso,” Open Letters Review.
“On Birthday by César Aira,” Open Letters Review.
“The Innocents Ashore: Penelope Fitzgerald’s Offshore Turns Forty,” Ploughshares.
“Mishima’s Body,” The Harvard Advocate.
“W.G. Sebald: Writing around Destruction,” The Harvard Advocate.