Essays, Features, and Reviews:
Miriam Toews’ latest novel offers ardent, funny lessons in staying and fighting, NPR Books, October 2021
Writer with Bell’s palsy ponders how to experience joy when expression is limited, NPR Books, October 2021
‘Seeing Ghosts’ Navigates the Melancholia of Loss—Of People, Places, and Identities, NPR Books, August 2021
All Might Not End Too Well In Mona Awad’s New Novel, NPR Books, August 2021
‘The Kissing Bug’ Challenges Which Diseases Matter—And Why, NPR Books, June 2021
A Daughter Grieves Her Mom, And Finds Herself, In ‘Crying in H Mart,’ NPR Books, April 2021
A Brief History of the Word “Goomba,” The Believer, April 2021
My Father Died Young. His Sisters Kept Me From Losing Him Entirely., The New York Times Magazine, February 2021
Heart-Shaped Box, Bookforum, January 2021
In ‘Having And Being Had,’ Eula Biss Maps Capitalist Game Rules Without Breaking Them, NPR Books, September 2020
What Women Want, The Baffler, July 2020
Amid a Pandemic, Finding Rootedness in an Urban Forest, Catapult, April 2020
Gaining A Self: On Chelsea Bieker’s Godshot, BOMB Magazine, April 2020
Abolishing the Prison of the Dead, The Baffler, November 2019
Signaling Through the Flames: On The Gulf by Belle Boggs, BOMB Magazine, April 2019
Marriage Isn’t the Only Plot for Love, Literary Hub, February 2019
Grift the Pain Away, The Baffler, February 2019
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
Don’t Cover Your Eyes, Catapult, September 2016
How to Do an MFA on the MTA, Public Books, September 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:
‘Owning the Taint of Artistry’: An Interview with Leslie Jamison, Hazlitt, September 2019
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
Interrogating Sentimentality with Leslie Jamison, Literary Hub, May 2016
Humor:
Park Slope Stoop Giveaways: Greatest Hits, The Hairpin, July 2016
