That Old Story: In The Ancients, John Larison makes a case for the long view
Alta Online, 11.11.24

Suspended Animation: In Miranda July’s novel All Fours, cliché becomes a catalyst for possibility
Alta Online, 5.27.24

Dayswork v. Cold People
Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes, 3.8.2024

Outsiders Only: D.J. Waldie’s Holy Land and the Literary Tradition of Explaining California
Alta, California Book Club, 1.11.2024

Hard-Boiled Hope in ‘Clark and Division’
Alta, California Book Club, 8.10.2023

A Different Kind of Bildungsroman
Alta, California Book Club, 1.26.2023

Empathy at a Distance
Alta, California Book Club, 8.4.2022

Play and ‘The Argonauts’
Alta, California Book Club, 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