Writing
Fiction
"Kids" / Pithead Chapel
Essays & Criticism
“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)
"On Carmen Maria Machado's Body Horrors" / The Millions
"There’s Only One Tonya: Debating Sufjan Stevens’s Two Renditions of 'Tonya Harding'” (with Chris Stedman) / Los Angeles Review of Books
"Where I Want to Be: Finding Home Between Byrne and Bachelard" / The Scofield
"'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)
On Ruth Madievsky's Emergency Brake / Prairie Schooner (print and online)
"Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1996-2003)" / Goodnight, Sweet Prince
"In the Age of Trump, Reclaiming the Golem as a Symbol of Jewish Resistance" / Literary Hub
"Beyond and Beneath Blue Voyage" / The Scofield
"Looking at Micah" / Jews for Animals Blog
On Yoko Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar Bear / Full Stop
On Thalia Field's Experimental Animals: A Reality Fiction / Full Stop
Reprinted in Full Stop Reviews Supplement, Issue 2
"'Like a Planet Forming its Own Orbit': Robin McLean's Reptile House" / Kenyon Review Online
"Is God a Word?: The Heterodox Jewishness of Clarice Lispector" / The Scofield
Reprinted by Literary Hub
On Masande Ntshanga's The Reactive / Full Stop
Reprinted in Full Stop Reviews Supplement, Issue 1
On Brian Blanchfield's Proxies: Essays Near Knowing / Full Stop
On Noy Holland's Bird / Full Stop
On Clarice Lispector's The Complete Stories (with Becca Rothfeld) / Full Stop
On Lily Hoang and Joshua Marie Wilkinson's The Force of What's Possible / Full Stop
Reprinted in Full Stop Quarterly, Issue 1
Interviews
Jayson Greene / The Nation
Elisa Gabbert / The Millions
Meghan O’Gieblyn / Los Angeles Review of Books
Brian Dillon / Los Angeles Review of Books
Katharine Kilalea / The Millions
Eli Valley / Los Angeles Review of Books
James Sturm / The Millions
Lacy M. Johnson / Los Angeles Review of Books
Bennett Sims / The American Reader
Other
Recommendation of Katharine Kilalea’s OK, Mr. Field / Literary Hub
Recommendation of Patrick Modiano’s Sleep of Memory / Literary Hub
Recommendation of Anna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love / Literary Hub
Recommendation of Daisy Hildyard's The Second Body / Literary Hub
Recommendation of Rachel Cusk's Kudos / Literary Hub
Recommendation of Kate Briggs’ This Little Art / Literary Hub
Interview for Secrets of the Book Critics series / Literary Hub
Recommendation of Julián Herbert’s Tomb Song / Literary Hub
Recommendation of Patrick Nathan's Some Hell / Literary Hub
Recommendation of Euripides' Bakkhai, trans. Anne Carson / Literary Hub
Recommendation of Rachel Ingalls' Mrs. Caliban / Literary Hub
Recommendation of Elvira Navarro's A Working Woman / Literary Hub
Recommendation of Danez Smith's Don't Call Us Dead / Literary Hub
Recommendation of Michael Robbins' Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music / Literary Hub