selected Writing

Fiction

“The Guts” / Triangle House Review
“The Octopus” / Protocols
"Kids"Pithead Chapel

Essays & Criticism

“The Nothing Letters” (with Claire Schwartz) / Jewish Currents (print and online)
”The Errant Mind of a Depressed Economist” / The New Yorker online
”Sex, Violence and Ecstasy: Leonard Cohen’s Early Fiction” / The New York Times Book Review (print and online)
Bear Witness” / The Baffler
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore” / Jewish Currents (print and online)
Space Jams” / Bookforum (print and online)
Far from the Maddening Crowd” / The Baffler (print and online)
Heavenly Geometries” / The Hedgehog Review (print and online)
Kafka in Pieces” / The Baffler
The Sound of Messianic Time” / Jewish Currents
“Taking Care” (with Claire Schwartz) / Jewish Currents
“Morbid Pleasures” / Lapham’s Quarterly
“I’m Fed Up!” / Bookforum
“Can’t Keep a Dead Man Down” / Poetry Foundation
“Angry Young Men” / The Baffler
“Kaddish for David Berman” (with Arielle Angel) / Jewish Currents (print and online)
”David Berman’s Parting Gift” / The Nation
“Dasa Drndic Dives into the Abyss of History” / The Nation
“Desperately Seeking Stillness” / The Hedgehog Review (print and online)
“Neither Comic nor Profound: The Vagaries of ‘kaddish.com’” / The Nation
“Hearing Gregor Samsa” / Los Angeles Review of Books
“Conventional Wisdom” / The Baffler
On Han Kang’s The White Book / Bookforum
“American Scapegoat” / The Baffler
“Two Cheers for Anthropomorphism” / The Hedgehog Review (print and online)
“‘I Don’t Know If This Letter Will Reach You’: The Letters of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem” / Los Angeles Review of Books (print and online)
“Wellness Is Always a Scam” / The Nation
“Fanatical Moderate” / The Baffler
“Forgiving Heidegger” / The Hedgehog Review (print and online)
“Unmapping: On Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights / Triangle House Review
“By What Law” / Jewish Currents
“Sheila Heti’s Talmudic Texts” / Los Angeles Review of Books
"Audio Salve: The Relentless Picnic Podcast and the Power of a Real Conversation"Los Angeles Review of Books
"The Pleasures of John Ashbery's 'Difficult' Poetry"Literary Hub
"The Power of W. G. Sebald's Small Silences"Literary Hub
"The Diasporist of Drohobycz"The New Inquiry
"Clarice Lispector's Lifelong Project"The Nation
"The Eternal Exile"The Hedgehog Review (print and online)
"'The Imagination Plays with You': Mary Ruefle's My Private Property and On Imagination"Kenyon Review Online
"The Divinity of Dog Writing"Literary Hub
"Story, Sign, and Play"The Hedgehog Review (print and online)
"In the Age of Trump, Reclaiming the Golem as a Symbol of Jewish Resistance"Literary Hub
On Yoko Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar Bear Full Stop
On Thalia Field's Experimental Animals: A Reality Fiction Full Stop
"'Like a Planet Forming its Own Orbit': Robin McLean's Reptile House" / Kenyon Review Online
"On the Heterodox Jewishness of Clarice Lispector"Literary Hub

CONVERSATIONS

Dan Sinykin / Jewish Currents
JaNaé Bates / Jewish Currents
Peter E. Gordon / Jewish Currents
Damon Krukowski / The Believer
Atalia Omer / The Nation
Jayson Greene / The Nation
Elisa Gabbert / The Millions
Meghan O’Gieblyn / Los Angeles Review of Books
Brian Dillon / Los Angeles Review of Books
Katharine KilaleaThe Millions
Eli ValleyLos Angeles Review of Books