selected Writing
Fiction
“The Guts” / Triangle House Review
“The Octopus” / Protocols
"Kids" / Pithead Chapel
Essays & Criticism
“The Nothing Letters” (with Claire Schwartz) / Jewish Currents (print and online)
”The Errant Mind of a Depressed Economist” / The New Yorker online
”Sex, Violence and Ecstasy: Leonard Cohen’s Early Fiction” / The New York Times Book Review (print and online)
“Bear Witness” / The Baffler
”That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore” / Jewish Currents (print and online)
”Space Jams” / Bookforum (print and online)
“Far from the Maddening Crowd” / The Baffler (print and online)
“Heavenly Geometries” / The Hedgehog Review (print and online)
“Kafka in Pieces” / The Baffler
“The Sound of Messianic Time” / Jewish Currents
“Taking Care” (with Claire Schwartz) / Jewish Currents
“Morbid Pleasures” / Lapham’s Quarterly
“I’m Fed Up!” / Bookforum
“Can’t Keep a Dead Man Down” / Poetry Foundation
“Angry Young Men” / The Baffler
“Kaddish for David Berman” (with Arielle Angel) / Jewish Currents (print and online)
”David Berman’s Parting Gift” / The Nation
“Dasa Drndic Dives into the Abyss of History” / The Nation
“Desperately Seeking Stillness” / The Hedgehog Review (print and online)
“Neither Comic nor Profound: The Vagaries of ‘kaddish.com’” / The Nation
“Hearing Gregor Samsa” / Los Angeles Review of Books
“Conventional Wisdom” / The Baffler
On Han Kang’s The White Book / Bookforum
“American Scapegoat” / The Baffler
“Two Cheers for Anthropomorphism” / The Hedgehog Review (print and online)
“‘I Don’t Know If This Letter Will Reach You’: The Letters of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem” / Los Angeles Review of Books (print and online)
“Wellness Is Always a Scam” / The Nation
“Fanatical Moderate” / The Baffler
“Forgiving Heidegger” / The Hedgehog Review (print and online)
“Unmapping: On Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights” / Triangle House Review
“By What Law” / Jewish Currents
“Sheila Heti’s Talmudic Texts” / Los Angeles Review of Books
"Audio Salve: The Relentless Picnic Podcast and the Power of a Real Conversation" / Los Angeles Review of Books
"The Pleasures of John Ashbery's 'Difficult' Poetry" / Literary Hub
"The Power of W. G. Sebald's Small Silences" / Literary Hub
"The Diasporist of Drohobycz" / The New Inquiry
"Clarice Lispector's Lifelong Project" / The Nation
"The Eternal Exile" / The Hedgehog Review (print and online)
"'The Imagination Plays with You': Mary Ruefle's My Private Property and On Imagination" / Kenyon Review Online
"The Divinity of Dog Writing" / Literary Hub
"Story, Sign, and Play" / The Hedgehog Review (print and online)
"In the Age of Trump, Reclaiming the Golem as a Symbol of Jewish Resistance" / Literary Hub
On Yoko Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar Bear / Full Stop
On Thalia Field's Experimental Animals: A Reality Fiction / Full Stop
"'Like a Planet Forming its Own Orbit': Robin McLean's Reptile House" / Kenyon Review Online
"On the Heterodox Jewishness of Clarice Lispector" / Literary Hub
CONVERSATIONS
Dan Sinykin / Jewish Currents
JaNaé Bates / Jewish Currents
Peter E. Gordon / Jewish Currents
Damon Krukowski / The Believer
Atalia Omer / The Nation
Jayson Greene / The Nation
Elisa Gabbert / The Millions
Meghan O’Gieblyn / Los Angeles Review of Books
Brian Dillon / Los Angeles Review of Books
Katharine Kilalea / The Millions
Eli Valley / Los Angeles Review of Books