Hard-Boiled Hope in ‘Clark and Division’
Alta Journal, 8.10.2023
A Different Kind of Bildungsroman
Alta Journal, 1.26.2023
Empathy at a Distance
Alta Journal, 8.4.2022
Play and ‘The Argonauts’
Alta Journal, 4.28.2022
The Saddest Stories Ever: On Sigrid Nunez’s ‘What Are You Going Through’
Los Angeles Review of Books, 10.26.2020
Bruce, Again
Hyped on Melancholy, 6.27.2020
Twilight of the Mentors
The New Inquiry, 5.19.2020
Quarantine Journal: Old Feelings
The Point, 5.17.2020
On Love and Parents in Crissy Van Meter’s ‘Creatures’
Los Angeles Review of Books, 1.29.2020
Hybrid Noir: On Anita Felicelli’s ‘Chimerica’
Los Angeles Review of Books, 9.26.2019
Damaged Intimacies: Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’
Los Angeles Review of Books, 3.25.2019
Embrace the Can
Popula, 8.29.2018
Leaps of Doubt in R. O. Kwon’s ‘The Incendiaries’
Los Angeles Review of Books, 7.21.2018
Better Than the Real Thing
Avidly, 6.8.2018
The Improbable and Impervious in Barbara Comyns’s ‘The Juniper Tree’
Los Angeles Review of Books, 1.23.2018
Too Much, Never Enough; The Painful Pleasures of Gabriel Tallent’s ‘My Absolute Darling’
Los Angeles Review of Books, 8.29.2017
Labor Without Ends: On the Feminist Politics of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels
Open Set, 5.6. 2017
Charlotte Brontë’s Anger
Public Books, 12.14.2016
D.G. Compton, Authenticity, and Privacy
Los Angeles Review of Books, 9.28.2016
Beyond the Matrimonial Horizon
Los Angeles Review of Books, 5.18.2016
The Novel in the Age of Digital Diversion
Public Books, 4.15.2016
Dominic Smith’s ‘The Last Painting of Sara de Vos’
Chicago Tribune, 4.5.2016