SELECTED PROSE
Monsieur Teste: All In His Head, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 27, 2024.
On Assignment, Virgil Rescues Dante from the Wilderness: Transcendent Friendships Accompany Us from Doubt to Faith, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Autumn/Winter 2024.
The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz (PDF), Times Literary Supplement, July 12, 2024.
Walt Whitman’s Civil War diaries (PDF) and his reflections on nature, paired with Dara Barnat’s Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry, Times Literary Supplement, Nov 2, 2023.
Epiphany at the Y, VQR and syndicated in The Guardian, summer-fall 2023. Nominee for Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting, UT Austin 2024.
Documents, The Kenyon Review, January 2023.
On Chanting, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, spring-summer 2021.
Llano, Texas, Agni, summer 2021.
Invisible Woman, Southern Humanities Review, spring 2020.
The House on Altamount Road, The Common, December 2019.
“I am a Bombay on the Move,” Jewish Book Council Paper Brigade, June 2019.
The Rare Women in the Rare Book Trade, The Paris Review Daily, 2018.
Dip Your Hand In, American Literary Review, 2018.
Letter to a Dog Walking Service, Longreads, 2018.
A Prescription for Forgetting, Longreads, 2018.
Prize and Prejudice: Do International Book Awards Dilute Literature? Foreign Policy, 2015.
“And She Went On Her Way Rejoicing,” The Rumpus (Muriel Spark), 2015.
The Door by Magda Szabo, The Rumpus, 2015.
A Chain on the Great Feelings: Stevie Smith, The Paris Review Daily, 2014.
Anybody Home? Mary Lawson, New York Times Book Review, 2014.
New Candor: Women Literary Biographers, The Paris Review Daily, 2014.
Contra Dancing with Pierre Reverdy, The Paris Review Daily, 2013.
Sex & Sensibility, The Paris Review Daily, 2013.
The Kings Have Adorned Her, The Paris Review Daily, 2013.
Reader’s Block, The Paris Review Daily, 2013.
Ferocity Unleashed: Elena Ferrante’s The Days of Abandonment, Emily’s Books, 2013.
The Upside-Down Diagonal World of Sea of Hooks, L.A. Review of Books, 2013.
Walcott, Pisarro, and the Search for Tiepolo’s Hound, Agni, 2000.
Trading Letters & Riffs: Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray, 2000.