Essays and Reviews:

Something Like Hope: On Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black, BOMB Magazine, November 2018

Why We Love—And Need to Leave Behind—Dead Girl Stories, Literary Hub, June 2018

A Bildungsroman Spy Novel: On Rosalie Knecht’s Who is Vera Kelly?, BOMB Magazine, June 2018

Mourning My Mother Through the Bags She Left Behind, The Cut, May 2018

Faded Pictures, Real Life, November 2017

Greed, Italian Style: On Nicola Lagioia’s Ferocity, BOMB Magazine, October 2017

Keeping House to Stave Off Grief, Literary Hub, September 2017

Growing Up Emo, Hazlitt, August 2017

The Threat Within: Harry Potter and the Cultural Baggage of Orphan Stories, Catapult, June 2017

Don’t Forget, ENDPAIN, May 2017

How Grief Books by Mediums Harm the Living and the Dead, Literary Hub, April 2017

In Praise of the New Aphorism, No Longer Just for Great Men, Literary Hub, February 2017

Memetic Mori, Real Life, December 2016

A Woman From Nowhere: Zadie Smith’s Swing Time, Google Play Editorial, November 2016

Don’t Cover Your Eyes, Catapult, September 2016

Making a Murder Story, Google Play Editorial, September 2016

How to Do an MFA on the MTA, Public Books, September 2016

5 Fictional Vegetarians Who Defy Stereotypes, Literary Hub, August 2016

Girlhood Against Convention: Why We Can’t Look Away, The Hairpin, June 2016

Donald Trump’s Sentimental Journey to the Top, Literary Hub, March 2016

The Weight of Old Photographs, The Grief Diaries, November 2015

Investigation, from the Latin investigationem, Guernica, October 2015 

Dancing Through Grief, The Toast, July 2015

The Hardest Roommate, The Pennsylvania Gazette, January 2015

Liminal Mother: On Nannying and Love, The Toast, July 2014

Over the Rainbow, Saveur, December 2013

Between the Frames, Cleaver Magazine, March 2013

Interviews and Profiles:

Gregory Pardlo on Form, His Father, and Not Writing a Book About Race, Literary Hub, April 2018

Phillip Lopate Revisits a 30-Year-Old Conversation with His Mother, Literary Hub, January 2017

In Search of Home (with Jonathan Safran Foer), Google Play Editorial, September 2016

Interrogating Sentimentality with Leslie Jamison, Literary Hub, May 2016

Humor:

Park Slope Stoop Giveaways: Greatest Hits, The Hairpin, July 2016