ON BOOKS

The Disaster is Already Here | The Guardian, 2026 | On Climate Fiction

Double Vision | The Nation, 2026 | On Ben Lerner’s Transcription

Parents and Sons | The Nation, 2024 |On the novels of Edouard Louis

The 2022 Booker Prize | The Sewanee Review, 2023 On the 2022 Booker Prize shortlist

Beautiful World, Where Are You? | The Sewanee Review, 2023 | On the novels of Sally Rooney

The Bombs May Have Stopped | NYT, 2021 | On Anuk Arudpragasam’s A Passage North

Sarah Moss’s Novels of Anxiety | Los Angeles Review of Books, 2021 | On Sarah Moss’s Summerwater

The Steadfast Attention of Sigrid Nunez | The Sewanee Review, 2021 | On the novels of Sigrid Nunez

The 2020 Booker Prize | The Sewanee Review | On the 2020 Booker Prize shortlist

What Women Want | Public Books, 2020 | On Miriam Toews’s Women Talking and Miranda Popkey’s Topic of Conversation

Olive, Again | Bookforum, 2019 | On Elizabeth Strout’s Olive, Again

Ondaatje’s Long War | Public Books, 2018 | On Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight

The Indispensable Anger of Arundhati Roy | Public Books, 2017 | On Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

ON SPORT(S)

The Magic of Olise | New York Magazine, 2026 | On Michael Olise at the 2026 World Cup

Hail Jude | New York Magazine, 2026 | On Jude Bellingham at the 2026 World Cup

The King of Cups The Point, 2022 | On the 2022 World Cup Final

Poor Harry Kane | The Point, 2022 | World Cup Dispatch: France vs. England

A Son Miracle | The Point, 2022 | World Cup Dispatch: France vs. England

Cautious Optimism | The Point, 2022 | World Cup Dispatch: England vs Wales

I Can’t Let Kobe Go | The Paris Review, 2020 | On grief, guilt, and Kobe Bryant