ON books

All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld Los Angeles Review of Books May 2024

“Dickens is Dead, Long Live Dickens: Influence and Imitation in Referential Fiction” Cleveland Review of Books May 2024

Essay on the publishing industry Noēma Magazine October 2023

My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket Cleveland Review of Books September 2023

Central Park West by James Comey The Baffler June 2023

The Longcut by Emily Hall Full Stop October 2022

ON POLITICS & CURRENT EVENTS

“Pragmocracy Now,” on pragmatism in American politics The Baffler August 2024

Regular nonfiction reviews for Publishers Weekly, including:

Red Africa by Kevin Ochieng Okoth October 2023

The Identity Trap by Yascha Mounk July 2023

The End of Reality by Jonathan Taplin May 2023

Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka March 2023

The Chile Project by Sebastian Edwards January 2023

The Big Con by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington December 2022

ON FILM

Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos, adapted from the novel by Alasdair Gray, The Baffler December 2023

INTERVIEWS

Interview with Julius Taranto, author of How I Won a Nobel Prize Public Books October 2023

Interview with Jonathan Taplin, author of The End of Reality Publishers Weekly June 2023

ODDITIES

“Nightclub for Nerds” New York Review of Architecture March 2024

“Janet Yellen’s stamp collection” The Drift May 2021

“David Lynch’s weather reports” The Drift November 2020