Essays

• “Compliant Mechanisms” for Protean Magazine

• “Death is Young” for The Baffler

• “Stealing Valor: The Political Heists of Inside Man and Da 5 Bloods” for Bright Wall/Dark Room

• “Clint Eastwood” for Still Alive

• “I tracked my reading with the obsessiveness of a pro athlete. It did not go well.” for The Boston Globe

• “What do Tom Hanks, Sidney Poitier, Molly Ringwald, and Sean Penn have in common?” for The Boston Globe

• “Fine Print” for The Baffler

• “The Author and The Critic” for Triangle House

• “Unencumbered Exuberance: Four Jewish Comic Novelists of Note” for The Missouri Review

• “The Means of Production” for The Hedgehog Review

• “Why Boomer Dads Are So Obsessed With a Certain Type of History Book” for MEL Magazine

• “To Compromise with the Facts of Living: On the Work of Elizabeth McCracken” for Longreads

• “The Godmother of Flash Fiction” for The Paris Review

• “No Goal” for Popula

• “The World’s Most Popular Personality Test in the World is a Joke” for The Outline

• “A New New Deal” for The Hedgehog Review

• "I Don't Spend Much Time in Nature, but I Love Reading About It" for Literary Hub

• "It's Totally Normal to Take a 7-Hour Plane Ride on My Private Jet to Have a 1-Minute Conversation" for Study Hall

• "Let Them Eat Experience" for Jacobin Magazine

Book Reviews

• Hanging Out by Sheila Liming for The Washington Post

• The Creative Act by Rick Rubin for The Boston Globe

• Either/Or by Elif Batuman for Gawker

• The Red Arrow by William Brewer for The Boston Globe

• Devil House by John Darnielle for The A.V. Club

• Tinderbox by James Andrew Miller for The A.V. Club

• Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman for The A.V. Club

• The Cult of We by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell for The A.V. Club

• Phase Six by Jim Shepard for Los Angeles Times

• Fragments of an Infinite Memory by Maël Renouard for The A.V. Club

• Antkind by Charlie Kaufman for MEL Magazine

• The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi for The A.V. Club

• The Accusation by Edward Berenson for Jewish Currents

• The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti by Meryle Secrest for NPR

• Transaction Man by Nicholas Lemann for NPR

• The World Doesn’t Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott for The A.V. Club

• The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter for Minneapolis Star Tribune

• Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann for Minneapolis Star Tribune

• A Review of Four Miriam Toews Novels for The Believer

• Range by David Epstein for NPR

• Being Numerous by Natasha Lennard for Pacific Standard

• The Heartland by Kristin L. Hoganson for NPR

• Who Wants to be a Jewish Writer? by Adam Kirsch for Jewish Currents

• Normal People by Sally Rooney for The A.V. Club

• Lot by Bryan Washington for The Nation

• The Polar Bear Expedition by James Carl Nelson for Minneapolis Star Tribune

• Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James for The A.V. Club

• Underground by Will Hunt for NPR

• Hark by Sam Lipsyte for The Washington Post

• Hollywood’s Eve by Lili Anolik for NPR

• The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya for Bookforum

• Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami for The A.V. Club

• Lion Cross Point by Masatsugu Ono for The Kenyon Review

• A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen for Minneapolis Star Tribune

• Still Lives by Maria Hummel for Los Angeles Review of Books

• Armand V by Dag Solstad for BOMB Magazine

• Rising by Elizabeth Rush for Pacific Standard

• Captive Audience by Lucas Mann for The Washington Post

• Catastrophe by Dino Buzzati for The Nation

• The Comedown by Rebekah Frumkin for Los Angeles Review of Books

• Paris Metro by Wendell Stevenson for Minneapolis Star Tribune

• Behemoth by Joshua B. Freeman for Pacific Standard

• The Know-It-Alls by Noam Cohen for Los Angeles Review of Books

• Neon in Daylight by Hermione Hoby for Los Angeles Review of Books

• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado for Los Angeles Review of Books

• Divining Desire by Liza Featherstone for The New Inquiry

• Kids These Days by Malcom Harris for WBUR

• Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture by Evan Kindley for Los Angeles Review of Books

• Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Ewa Kurniawan for Los Angeles Review of Books

• The Teeth of the Comb by Osama Alomar for The New Republc

• Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong for Paste Magazine

• The Trouble with Reality by Brooke Glandstone for Los Angeles Review of Books

• Draw Your Weapons by Sarah Sentilles for The Rumpus

• The Idiot by Elif Batuman for Electric Literature

• Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer for The Millions

Interviews

• Etgar Keret for Jewish Currents

• Lucie Greene for Longreads

• Tom McAllister for The Millions

• Elizabeth Rush for Longreads

• Michael Nye for The Millions

Fiction Writing

• “Stupid Zebra” for The Sun

• "Greg Kinnear Wants to Cry for Real" for The Doctor T.j. Eckleburg Review

• "Cryogenics" for The Collapsar

Content Writing

• Garage Storage Round-Up for The Today Show

• How to Plan a Themed Valentine’s Day Night for The Today Show

• Best New Books for Spring for The Today Show

• Books for Bridgerton Fans for The Today Show

• Books for Women’s History Month for The Today Show

• Valentine’s Day Gifts for $50 or Less for The Today Show

• How Do Appraisals Really Work? for List With Clever

• How Do Rent-To-Own Homes Work? for List With Clever

• Three Must-Take Steps To Get Your Home Ready To Sell for Real Estate Witch