Writing
Selected Criticism
For Love or Money: A Substack newsletter about reading, writing, and writing about books
Review of Skipping School: A History of American Homeschooling and How It Went Mainstream by Dixie Dillon Lane for the Wall Street Journal
Review of Trash! A Garbageman’s Story by Simon Pare-Poupart, trans. by Pablo Strauss (Plough)
Review of City Like Water, a novel by Dorothy Tse, trans. by Natascha Bruce (On the Seawall)
Review of Sweet Home Feliciana: Family, Slavery, and the Hauntings of History by Rashauna Johnson (Washington Independent Review of Books)
Review of The Girl Who Baptized Herself by Meggan Watterson (Christian Century)
Review of One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson (Washington Independent Review of Books)
Review of Supersaurio by Meryem El Mehdati, trans. by Julia Sanches (Full Stop)
Review of A New New Me by Helen Oyeyemi (World Literature Today)
Review of KPop Demon Hunters (Counter Arts)
Review of Daughters of Palestine: A Memoir in Five Generations by Leyla K. King (Plough)
Review of That’s All I Know by Elisa Levi, trans. Christina MacSweeney (Books Are Our Superpower)
Review of Gliff by Ali Smith (Counter Arts)
“On Reading Renée Nicole Good’s Poem” (Medium)
“A Plea to the Big 5: Invest in Developmental Editing” (Counter Arts)
Essays
Some scattered notes on sending my kids back to school in Florida (Counter Arts)
A three-part series for The Well on why I needed a break from being a professor: part one, part two, part three
“I Can Finally Call Myself a Runner” (Runner’s Life)
An essay on Maureen Duffy’s Capital (1975) (Literary London Society London Fictions collection)